Quotes about Defiance
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.
- Ayn Rand
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
- John Barrymore
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.
- George W. Bush
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
- Joseph Campbell
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
- Charles Dickens
Hey, mister, I don't think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.
- Rainbow Rowell
Undine Spragg—how can you? her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid bell-boy had just brought in.
- Edith Wharton
When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.
- Edmund Burke