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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
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")
— Julian Hawthorne
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
— Sheila Rowbotham
He can make even the act of putting on his dressing gown appear as a gesture of defiance.
— Vincent Tilsley
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
— Stanley Crawford
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.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
— Pankaj Mishra
libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The stunt team were great on 'Defiance.' They were there, every day.
— Stephanie Leonidas
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
— Kiersten White
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
— Max Lucado
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.
— Courtney Milan
To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.
— Jessica Fechtor
Hawk soared over our carriage, letting out a high, piercing cry of defiance, and I wanted to jump out of the window and fly with it
— Stephanie Burgis
She wanted defiance in her face, and I wanted to wipe it away with a fuck so hard we'd both break.
— C.D. Reiss
The wind howled in defiance as viscous clouds suffocated the moon, taking the night as their own.
— J.D. Barker
Every great legend begins with that one person who raises an angry fist to the sky and flips off the gods in defiance. Acheron
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right." The
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiancegallant, glorious, and quite mad. — Sharon Kay Penman
PE is the sound of naked defiance.
— Vernon Reid
A spark of defiance flickered over his face.
— Marissa Meyer
Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.
— Robert A. Heinlein
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
— Thomas Jefferson
Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.
— Melika Dannese Lux
Faith is actually spiritual defiance. It is righteous rebellion against your own "messed up" reality.
— William H. Curtis
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
— J.I. Packer
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
Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
— Alice Childress
Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.
— George Carlin
The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.
— Ted Nugent
I bow to no beast.
— Keisha Keenleyside
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.He admired his own defiance.
And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [ ... ] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Her face reflecting the color of her dress, she glowed even in her disappointment ... perhaps the way of her defiance to the fate.
— Madhu Vajpayee
Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
— Karen Armstrong
In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.
— Tom Robbins
I write out of defiance.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.
— Freidoune Sahebjam
If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.
— Ann Leckie
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.
— Margaret Sanger
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
Some might think you suicidal.""Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass. — Charlaine Harris
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.
— Pearl Cleage
Are we going to do the best we can by tolerating this unwanted enemy or do we make a stand of defiance?" The
— Adeodata O. Warner
It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.
— Kaniehtiio Horn
In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will. — Winston S. Churchill
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
— Oliver Goldsmith
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
— Noam Chomsky
And always, always, it is worth it to sing alleluia in defiance of the devil, who surely hates the sound of it.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.
— Gerry Lindgren
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
— Meryl Streep
Defiance: I see a little girl in pretend armour, fighting off all the things she doesn't want to be. Well
— Nina George
The cigarette represents a simple pleasure coupled with self-destruction and defiance of death. Melodrama
— Benjamin Doolin
Defiance through compliance.
— Jasper Fforde
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
— Noam Chomsky
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
— Millard Fillmore
Scarlet loved wearing red. She treated it like an act of defiance given her red hair. Michelle
— Marissa Meyer
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
— Emiliano Zapata
Mutual defiance made them alike.
— Harper Lee
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 — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Checkmate, bitch.
— Richelle Mead
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
— Nancy Gibbs
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
— Paul C. Nagel
How does someone domesticate a horse?" "They break it," I said with a hint of defiance. "Do I look broken to you?" "Looks
— Robert J. Crane
Furious defiance burned under his skin.
— Nalini Singh
What do we say to the Lord of Death?''Not today. — George R R Martin