Provoking Quotes
If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
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.
Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
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.
