#provoked

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

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell. ↗

— Frank Miller

#attacked #burn #country #hell #i

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#always #began #competitions #daniel #did

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotion #peculiar #people #provoked

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#fail #guilt #just #must #prevent

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ↗

— James Boswell

#complain #lash #provoked #smarts #who

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. ↗