Provoking Quotes - Page 25

• I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Salvation

  "Francis Chan Takes On Hell". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. June 07, 2011.

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• Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

  A. C. Dixon

  Giving, May, Christianity

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• I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Worry, Political

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• My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

  Casey Affleck

  Fool, Emotion, Aim

  "Roger Ebert Still Has Questions for Casey Affleck". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

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• It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Together, World

  The TED Interview, www.ted.com. July, 2005.

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• As a designer, I'm supposed to be provoking people's reactions, and getting people to see things differently. I think more of us should be doing this. Because yeah, maybe guys are not gonna want to wear my stuff, but they'll think that they can maybe wear something a little bit more than what they've been wearing. That's the only way things move forward.

  Thom Browne

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

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• Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

  Mona Charen

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.

  David D. Glass

  Thought Provoking, Missing, Improving

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• One sin another doth provoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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  If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Challenges, Inspire

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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• A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Genocide, Destruction

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• One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, People, Insult

  "Pope Francis says there are limits to freedom of expression". The Pope’s Press Conference on Flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, en.radiovaticana.va. January 15, 2015.

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• Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.

  Beth Moore

  Answers, Sometimes, Christ

  Beth Moore (2014). “Portraits of Devotion”, p.219, B&H Publishing Group

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• I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Charity, Poverty

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Mars

  Macbeth II. 3

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• Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Want, Heard

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• The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

  Paul Muldoon

  Eye, Feet, Noses

  Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.

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• When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Access

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• Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, Thought Provoking, Harder

  "Patient capitalism". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2007.

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• We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Blind, Profit

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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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