In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law. — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather. — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
The essence of the divine being is not power but compassion and love. And it's this love, and this love only, that… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’t remind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you… — St Crow Lili 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
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
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
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 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
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn 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
How do you know Hollywood is getting serious about video games? They want to make one of their own. In 'Defiance,' the… — Rob Manuel 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
“Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")” — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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
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
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity — Anonymous 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
The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack. — Ted Nugent 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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