I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught?… — Courtney M. Privett 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
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old… — William Cecil Dampier 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
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules...… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with… — Julie Benz 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
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
I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
“Tell me, because I really am quite curious. What precisely did you expect to happen when my dear perfidious brother brought me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting… — Hugh Nibley 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
“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
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
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. — Ann Leckie 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
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be… — Kaniehtiio Horn Copy Share Image
“Answering a question with a question is simply a way to gain enough time to think of a plausible lie.” — C.J. Redwine 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
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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