Top 256 Defiance Quotes & Sayings

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

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Mutual defiance made them alike.

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

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.

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.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

PE is the sound of naked defiance.

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

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.

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

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

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

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.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

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

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

Defiance through compliance.

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

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

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

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

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

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

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

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

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

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

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.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

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.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

I write out of defiance.

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

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

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.

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

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

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

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

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

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.

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

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.