“It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.”
Michael Franc
“The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate”
Christopher Fry
“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
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha
“In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.”
Master Jin Kwon
“The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility”
Charles Lamb
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”
Clive Bell