People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“You’re so rebellious as it is.” “I am not!” Franny said with her customary defiance” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.” — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“another option exists for those who want both peace and freedom: political defiance” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I picked it up, stared at it, and thought: Why am I the one bending and lifting while he sits downstairs complaining… — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
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 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
The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack. — Ted Nugent 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
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo 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
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 would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins 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