Quotes about Provocation
call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's living room. Watching all this out of the corners of her eyes while serving the liqueurs, Sally feels the Aztec rise within her. Trouble with your heart? Get it removed, she thinks. Then you'll have no more problems.
— Margaret Atwood
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
— John Lennon
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
— George Bernard Shaw
Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.
— John Newton
You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?
— Elton John
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.
— Malcolm X
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
— Mark Twain
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must admit that the whole conduct of the proceedings was intolerable, and that my righteous protest was more than justified. It is possible that when I threw the chairman's table at the President of the Psychic College I passed the bounds of decorum, but the provocation had been excessive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
— Erica Jong