#provoke

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#amazed #attack #been #documented #how

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#already #be careful #bond #careful #got

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. ↗

— Erica Jong

#authors #could #dust #i #icons

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses