Provocatives Quotes & Sayings

The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me. — Debasish Mridha

Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn't come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week. — John Zakour

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances. — Lord Chesterfield

Bruises heal more quickly than emotional scars do. — The Arbinger Institute

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer. — Paul Rand

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny. — Sarah Silverman

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment. — Evo Morales

Nothing is lost that love remembers. — Kate McGahan

By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note. — Jude Bijou

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny! — Mitch Hedberg

We've had some fun tonight ... considering we're all gonna die someday. — Steve Martin

10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. — Anonymous

This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves. — Manly Hall

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. — Robert Orben

You know, where have you - what have you been doing? You know, and you find yourself sitting next to Jesus, and he's rather an agreeable man. And you have an opportunity to say, so what went down then, you know, that night? And it's supposed to be like him just sort of telling you very conversationally. That was the idea I had. Whether it - whether it comes - came off or not, I don't know. — Nick Lowe

I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability. — C. JoyBell C.