Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief,… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Miss Liddell,” he’d groan, “this is all impossible! Don’t you understand that? It’s impossible!” Her expression was all seriousness, as if he’d… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
“I picked it up, stared at it, and thought: Why am I the one bending and lifting while he sits downstairs complaining… — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no hope," whispered Das. "There's always some hope, Mr. Das." "No, Mr. Luczak, there is not. Sometimes there is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor. The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello! Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“For some parents, as with Jason’s father, the least popular feature of their children is defiance. Yet it is one of the… — de Becker, Gavin Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
“In this land I have made myself sick with silence In this land I have wandered, lost In this land I hunkered… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I promised I will always protect you. You've been wounded badly because I've failed to keep that promise. [...] But I won´t… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
“And I swore it to myself the night Maurice ran away,” Ilyse screamed, terror and fury coursing through her veins, “and I’ll… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us.… — Stephanie Leonidas Copy Share Image
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“A lot of people call you a feminist painter." "What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks. "Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image