“What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea… — Suzanne Collins 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
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Shattering the norms is not about anarchy; it's about audacity. It's about dancing to the rhythm of your own rule-breaking swagger, that… — Donna Karlin Copy Share Image
Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this… — Tuvia Bielski Copy Share Image
“Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President;… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
“Though Sebastian wasn't looking at her, he could hear the note of childish defiance in her voice, and it caused a wrench… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation"… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image