#provocative

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. ↗

— Sam Harris

#provocative #religion #worry #religion

We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" (p. 176). ↗

— David Guterson

#inspirational #provocative #thoughtful #inspirational

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. ↗

— Edward Norton

#all things #always #appeals #broadest #denominator

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find. ↗

— John McTiernan

#hard #ideas #provocative #script #works

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#men

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#divine #judgment #let us #others #peculiarly

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#area #been #before #early #elvis

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#been #feelings #people #provocative #very

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #certainly #compelling #could #delicious

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#angered #content #directions #even #every