Definition of Provoking

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Definition of Provoking
	Provoking of Provoke Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. Related Definitions: As, Awaken, Exciting, Having, Of, Or, Passion, Power, Provoke, Provoking, Quality, Resentment, Tending, The, To, Treatment, Vexation

Provoking Quotations

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.
John Conyers

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
Brad Bird

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

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
Scott Reed

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Martin Kippenberger

Provoking Translations

provoking in French is provoquant, chiffonant
provoking in German is provozierenden, reizend, provozierend
provoking in Swedish is retsam

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