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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. -- Charlotte Forten Grimke
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us. -- Robert Redford
A house that has a library in it has a soul. -- Plato
Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer. -- Beth Moore
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation. -- Seth Godin
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. -- Elie Wiesel
Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail. -- Paul Sloane
One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith. -- Pope Francis
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it. -- Jonas Salk
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. -- Anita Roddick
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. -- Barbra Streisand
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. -- William Wilberforce
A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it. -- Ronald Reagan
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. -- Keith Haring
There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. -- Jane Grigson
We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better. -- Janet Mock
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same? -- Geena Rocero
I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions. -- Simon Critchley
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed. -- C. S. Lewis
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had--I don't know what--the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is. -- Doris Lessing
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. -- E. O. Wilson
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. -- Martin Kippenberger
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. -- Theodor Adorno
Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking. -- Reid Scott
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. -- Kate Bush
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people. -- Chris Lilley
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things. -- Michelle Monaghan
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. -- Jeanne Moreau
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. -- Juliette Binoche
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. -- Scott Reed
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. -- Stanley Schmidt
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level. -- Brad Bird
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. -- Sam Harris
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor. -- Arjun Rampal
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental. -- Billie Piper
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. -- John Conyers
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books. -- Louis Sachar
Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel. -- ELLE NICOLAI
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking? -- Benjamin Franklin
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation. -- Lizz Winstead
Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking. -- Benjamin Franklin
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking. -- Charlie Kaufman
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking. -- Stanley Schmidt
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. -- Ogden Nash
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. -- William Mapother
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. -- Martin Heidegger
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians. -- Dan Poynter
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia. -- Jill Stein
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, -- Nomi Prins
Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking. -- Jamie Hyneman
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book. -- Jonathan Sumption
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. -- Charles Lamb
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred. -- Rob Brezsny
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. -- Hannah More
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. -- Mark Kingwell
Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin -- Vicki M. Taylor
I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration. -- Petra Remes
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. -- Sarah Vowell
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. -- Kim Harrison
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose. -- Ben Hunt
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. -- Kim Harrison
Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest. -- Harvey Mackay
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. -- Richard Dawkins
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose? -- Patrick McGrath
I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at. -- Ricky Gervais
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. -- Robert Hughes
Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking. -- Kate Bush
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs. -- Thomas Keller
I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking. -- Judy Dater
The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show! -- Alfre Woodard
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. -- Spike Lee
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages -- Francis Bacon
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. -- Martin Freeman
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. -- Epictetus
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level -- Brad Bird
If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. - -- Epictetus

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