Quotes about Defiance
It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.
- Margaret Atwood
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum [...] But what did it mean? I said. What?, he said. Oh, it meant 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. I guess we thought we were pretty smart back then.
- Margaret Atwood
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum [...] But what did it mean? I said. What?, he said. Oh, it meant 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. I guess we thought we were pretty smart back then.
- Margaret Atwood
I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.
- Margaret Atwood
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
- Bob Marley
I have a quote taped to my office wall from an anonymous source that says, 'Love is hard. Love is ... seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.
- Anne Lamott
I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.
- Malcolm X
I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.
- John Foxe
The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.
- John Foxe
To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To
- AW Pink
Why is it that, today, the masses are so utterly unconcerned about spiritual and eternal things, and that they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God? Why is it that, even on the battlefields, multitudes were so indifferent to their soul's welfare? Why is it that defiance of heaven is becoming more open, more blatant, more daring? The answer is, Because "There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom 3:18).
- AW Pink
Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan
- George Bernard Shaw