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
Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this… — Tuvia Bielski Copy Share Image
“I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President;… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Make it a human war,' she said fiercely. 'You're the first not to be deceived by my looks. Oh God! The boredom… — Alfred Bester 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
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
“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
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz 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
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
How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance… — Bertrand de Jouvenel 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
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own… — Gabrielle Giffords 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
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers 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
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
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take… — Libba Bray 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
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
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea… — Suzanne Collins 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
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding 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
You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
