Provoking Quotes - Page 16

• It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

  John Calvin

  Boon, Lack Of Trust, Request

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

  David M. Brown

  America, Thought Provoking, Ambitious

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• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  Damon Lindelof

  Littles, Ted Talks, Conversation

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• 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

  Thought Provoking, Looks, Actors

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• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Punishment

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 1, 1948.

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• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”

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• I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Racism, Prejudice

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

  "Liber Kaos". Book by Peter J. Carroll, January 15, 1992.

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• I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.

  Fashawn

  Gangsta, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Powerful, Real, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Challenges, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.

  William Morris

  Thinking, Years, Decision

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• 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

  Garden, Past, Museums

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• If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

  Joshua Harris

  Men, Want, Grows

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• 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

  People, Thought Provoking, Trying

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• I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thought Provoking, Interesting, Trying

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• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

  Joshua Ferris

  Struggle, Character, Emotional

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• Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

  George Will

  Mean, Gun, Trying

  "Flashback: Stephanopoulos Scolded Critic of Bonior and McDermott". www.newsbusters.org. March 26, 2008.

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• The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

  Charles Lamb

  Doe, Tease, Trumpets

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.59

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Praise, Admirer, Commit

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Commentary

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Enemy, Different

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.

  Jacques Ellul

  Information, Messages, Propaganda

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