“ The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain… and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate. ”
- Jeremy Brett- Copy
- 3K
“ There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. ”
- Monta Crane- Copy
- 4K
“ Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man. ”
- Bradford Merrill- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.". ”
- John Tillotson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.7K
“ To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ”
- Tillotson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it. ”
- Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ”
- Edward P. Morgan- Copy
- 673
“ Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your eyes by a group of actors on stage can be equally thrilling. I think we undervalue silence as a very powerful currency. I think we're frightened of it right now… ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. ”
- Michael Franti- Copy
- 751
“ It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent; not that it was simply "their fault" - I don't mean that- but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness- or some provocation. ”
- Robert Hugh Benson- Copy
- 375
“ You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ”
- George Konrad- Copy
- 360
“ The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
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