Provoking Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

  William Beveridge

  Blessing, Generosity, Alms

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• As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Two, World

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• Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Religious, Hate, War

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• Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity? Out into the ether of the world to wait for the circumstances that would provoke its reappearance? Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture - it's the great mystery of mental illness.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Opportunity, Cells, Waiting

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.78, Vintage

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• One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
  Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Lust, Murder

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.756

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• Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

  Cathy Freeman

  Offering, Media, Ideas

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• Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

  Susie Orbach

  Views, Perspective, Political

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

  Eric Cantona

  Self, People, Answers

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• It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

  Jaime King

  Artist, Ideas, Emotion

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Night, Names, Labyrinth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

  Crystal Reed

  Character, Directors, Answers

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive.

  Grace Gealey

  Spiritual, Song, Ocean

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Ignorance, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.

  Richard Bentall

  Stress, Adversity, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Artist, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Emotional, Stories, Way

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, People, Thought Provoking

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  Ella Baker

  Believe, Raises Questions, Study

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.

  Matt Wertz

  Inspiration, Nashville, Cities

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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• I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.

  Zachary Quinto

  Stars, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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