Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
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
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
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
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
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. — J. K. Rowling 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
“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for… — James Frey 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
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
“That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks. "Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts… — C.J. Redwine 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman 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
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
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
“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the… — Anonymous 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
Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
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