Best Defiance Quotations
160 Defiance quotes by 137 unique authors
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The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,…
— Ben Macintyre
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles…
— Samuel Lover
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
— Norman Mailer
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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of…
— Condoleezza Rice
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of…
— Walt Whitman
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After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become…
— Richard Russo
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
— Twyla Tharp
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Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
— Gerard Way
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Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye…
— Robert Jordan
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
— Kate DiCamillo
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Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes…
— Terry Pratchett
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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
— Seamus Heaney
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In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get…
— Terry Pratchett
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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of…
— Leon Uris
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Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is…
— Joseph Conrad
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In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,…
— Azar Nafisi
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To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It…
— Jerome Groopman
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