#provoking

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #provoking




When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.


Christina Baker Kline


#anger

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.' Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7


C.S. Lewis


#age

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.


Stanley Schmidt


#doing #either #everybody #goal #hates

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.


Friedrich von Schiller


#thought-provoking #dreams

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)


Mike Higton


#education

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.


Ransom Riggs


#mystery #stars #thought-provoking #mystery

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.


Donald Thomas


#history #thought-provoking #dating

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.


Jessica Park


#thought-provoking #true-to-life #humor

Just when you’ve squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap


Tom Holt


#life

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die


Natsuo Kirino


#sad #thought-provoking #life