Quotes on Provoking

Another name for peace is development.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.