“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
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
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
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
“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson 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
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
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
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under… — Jack London Copy Share Image
You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch… — Anonymous 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
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
“Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“You need not treat me like a child, sir. I am perfectly capable of navigating this staircase on my own." He snorted.… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use… — Erich Raeder Copy Share Image
Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being… — Haifaa al-Mansour Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
“What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks...… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of… — Tony Curran Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
