(64 quotes found)
“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity”
Winston Churchill
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade”
Hannah Arendy
“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.”
Will Durst
“There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.”
Dick Cheney
“These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion”
John Adams
“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, good will.”
Edward Marsh
“I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God."”
Alice Childress
“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 through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!”
William Pitt the elder
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“The level of defiance is unprecedented - it never happened before, even in 1990.”
Yubaraj Ghimire
