Defiance Quotes

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

There is no possibility of a public demonstration [in Iran] of such defiance, but these defiant acts are certainly going on.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

I write out of defiance.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.

I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.

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 in defiance of convention.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

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 to know one another better.

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

Let me not fear defeat or death, Let me not fear being forgotten, Let my defiance sustain my soul, Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in ‘Chameleon Lights

Leadership can mean defiance.

She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all, " she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")

A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

I bow to no beast.

People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances

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 yours too...

The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name.

Never apologize for correct actions.

An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.