Provokingly Quotes & Sayings

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno. — Deborah Harkness

I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing. — John Shimkus

How can you be so jealous of other men, Derek, when you know there's only been you?"
"Baby, I'm jealous of men who haven't even seen you yet. — Tessa Bailey

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness. — B. J. Palmer

The Lives of the Poets are, on the whole, the best of Johnson's works. The narratives are as entertaining as any novel. The remarks on life and on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound. The criticisms are often excellent, and, even when grossly and provokingly unjust, well deserve to be studied. For, however erroneous they may be, they are never silly. They are the judgments of a mind trammelled by prejudice and deficient in sensibility, but vigorous and acute. They therefore generally contain a portion of valuable truth which deserves to be separated from the alloy; and, at the very worst, they mean something, a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions. — Samuel Johnson

Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within. — T.F. Hodge

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming. — Andrew Weil

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it." "You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking. — Thomas Hardy

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. — Katy Perry

The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." Lamentations 3:24 It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent's scale ran all the way from wouldn't piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle. — Jane Casey

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat — Lyndon B. Johnson

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever. — Vivien Leigh

Life, U May told her, is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail. The monastery itself was surrounded — Jan-Philipp Sendker

At our age, you don't want to stop. — Alex Van Halen

Sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight. — David Estes

The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring. — Anna Brackett

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. — George Du Maurier