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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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.
Barnett Newman
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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.
Anthony Crosland -
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
Steven Strogatz -
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.
William Cecil Dampier -
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.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham -
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
Natalie -
Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low.
Courtney Milan -
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
David Mura -
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
George Eliot -
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.
William Pitt -
It was defiance born of a lack of any hope.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Seamus Heaney -
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.
Erich Raeder -
PE is the sound of naked defiance.
Vernon Reid -
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.
Dalia Grybauskaite -
Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
Courtney Milan