“Some might think you suicidal." "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.” — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world… — Joseph Conrad 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
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance… — Robert Fanney 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
You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these… — Tony Curran 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
“Sometimes there is no hope," whispered Das. "There's always some hope, Mr. Das." "No, Mr. Luczak, there is not. Sometimes there is… — Dan Simmons 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
“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
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life,… — Doug Peacock 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
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image