“We should insist that letting go is one form of hope. Here, defiance in a stand of evergreens.” — Stacie Cassarino Copy Share Image
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law. — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.” — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
“And if the many sayings of the wise Teach of submission I will not submit But with a spirit all unreconciled Flash… — Jennifer Donelly Copy Share Image
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The difference between revolution and defiance is the difference between an overthrow of the existing order and one person's shaken fist. When… — Brandon W. Forbes Copy Share Image
Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC…The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a… — Richard Keen Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I… — P.C. Hodgell Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present,… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
“Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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