137 Quotes About Defiance

Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds.

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation; make sure it doesn't happen to your's. Make your stand & make it now.

He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.

I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’tremind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seempossible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. ButI’ll bet it’s out there somewhere.

...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...

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

…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

You need not treat me like a child, sir. I am perfectly capable of navigating this staircase on my own."He snorted.Her nostrils flared. "I promise not to ask you to catch me again, all right? Now stop scowling."Of course he did no such thing.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.