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I write out of defiance.
Defiance through compliance.
Mutual defiance made them alike.
PE is the sound of naked defiance.
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.
Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
The stunt team were great on 'Defiance.' They were there, every day.
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 United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.
Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
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.
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
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.
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.
Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
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.
In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.