Defiance Quotes

Defiance Quote of the day

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

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 defiance.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Defiance through compliance.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

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 on the Last Day.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Mutual defiance made them alike.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?