The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 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
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of… — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
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
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
Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?” Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears.… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton 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
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo 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
America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive?… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
