Defiance Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
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As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
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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.
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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.
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Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
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PE is the sound of naked defiance.
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Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
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Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
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The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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It was defiance born of a lack of any hope.
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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
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Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use in a series of aggressions which he had taken a leading part in planning.
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It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
