Defiant Quotes

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Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame… — Cory Booker
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! — Walt Whitman
United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester… — Roy Keane
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — William Feindel
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive. — Madonna Ciccone
He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual… — Judy Woodruff
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place. — Julie Kagawa
Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to… — Madonna Ciccone
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger… — Pearl Cleage
If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders… — Vincent Bugliosi
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical… — John Negroponte
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible womanâ€¦ have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come… — John Cowper Powys
I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in… — Neal A. Maxwell
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing… — Barbara Kingsolver
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old… — Bela Bartok

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