Quotes about Provocation

I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

Patience . . . speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation . . .enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

I love when people talk trash.