Best 100 quotes in «defiance quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

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.

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

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

Mutual defiance made them alike.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

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

Only the fools are certain and assured.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

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

A lot of people call you a feminist painter." "What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?

About as defiant as a girl can be with her mouth gagged, her arms pinned and her legs spread wide open

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

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

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.

And I swore it to myself the night Maurice ran away,” Ilyse screamed, terror and fury coursing through her veins, “and I’ll swear it again; no matter what you do, you will never conquer me.

… an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says, "You never told such a falsehood in your life, as you tell just now. Who can kill me? Me you kill, Emperor of the material world! Never! For I am Spirit unborn and undecaying; never was I born and never do I die; I am the Infinite, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient; and you kill me, child that you are!" That is strength, that is strength!

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

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

A persons character can be gauged by how merciful they are in a fight they know they can win, and how defiant they are in a fight they know they can’t.

Are the Trials starting?” The girl claps her hands over her mouth. “I'm sorry,” she whispers. “I—” “It's all right.” I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. “I'm actually wondering the same thing. What's your name?” “S-slave-Girl.” Of course. My mother would already have scourged her name out of existence. “Right. You work for the Commandant?” I want her to say no. I want her to say that my mother roped her into this. I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body parts. But the girl nods in response to my question. Don't let my mother break you, I think. The girl meets my eyes, and there is that feeling again, low and hot and consuming. Don't be weak. Fight. Escape. A gust of wind whips a strand free from her bun and across her cheekbone. Defiance flashes across her face as she holds my gaze, and for a second, I see my own desire for freedom mirrored, intensified in her eyes. It's something I've never detected in the eyes of a fellow student, let alone a Scholar slave. For one strange moment, I feel less alone. But then she looks down, and I wonder at my own naiveté. She can't fight. She can't scape. Not from Blackcliff. I smile joylessly; in this, at least, the slave and I are more similar than she'll ever know.

Checkmate, bitch.

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation; make sure it doesn't happen to your's. Make your stand & make it now.

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

He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.

Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn—possibly even arrogant—enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.

First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing exultation, causing stalks to lie flat against the ground while the tougher branches of shrubs held themselves up and shrieked their defiance in the gusts. Then the first drops, cold and heavy, would plummet from the sky and burst on the ground.

For your sake, jewel, I am glad at soul I have no other child; For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on them.

…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

I bow to no beast.

How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot.

If they think they can stop me, I defy them to bring the best they have and I shall roast them over a pit of their own arrogant stupidity."--Maxis

I defy my fate and thereby change it

I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’t remind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seem possible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. But I’ll bet it’s out there somewhere.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.