How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. - Steven Erikson
To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity. - Kin F. Kam
I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time. - Muammar Gaddafi