Defiance Quotes

“Leadership can mean defiance.”

— Chuck Wendig

I write out of defiance.

— Jamaica Kincaid

PE is the sound of naked defiance.

— Vernon Reid

Mutual defiance made them alike.

— Harper Lee

Creativity is an act of defiance.

— Twyla Tharp

“I bow to no beast.”

— Keisha Keenleyside

“Sometimes defiance is all we have”

— Stan Grant

“Never apologize for correct actions.”

— R.J. Lawrence

“People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.”

— Tim Fargo

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

— Andre Gide

“Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.”

— Rachel Caine

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

— Bob Woodward

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

— Stephanie Leonidas

“Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

— Rene Magritte

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

— Akbar Ganji

“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of…

— Mark Simpson

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

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

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

— Noam Chomsky

“Defiance may be the roughest path to beauty but, unfortunately, often it is the only path.”

— Debra K. Rodgers

“Answering a question with a question is simply a way to gain enough time to think of a plausible lie.”

— C.J. Redwine

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that…

— Matt Smith

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for…

— James Frey

“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

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew…

— Samuel Lover

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes…

— Anonymous

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete…

— Eric Hoffer

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

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it…

— Terry Pratchett

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must…

— Dick Cheney

From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is…

— Meredith Willson

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Tell me, because I really am quite curious. What precisely did you expect to happen when my dear perfidious brother brought me…

— Anonymous

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some…

— Leon Uris

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned…

— Eric Hoffer

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

North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become…

— Andre Vltchek

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting…

— Hugh Nibley