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Quotes About Rebellion

If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.
~ Scott Lynch
Key, crown, child," he muttered. "Well, fuck you, Patience. Three things must you kiss before I let you spook me for good. My boots, my balls, and my ass.
~ Scott Lynch
If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.
~ Scott Lynch
I'm done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn't a stage and I didn't pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone's death speech. You don't fucking get one, understand? I don't care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry.
~ Scott Lynch
Go fold yourself in half," said Locke, "and lick your ass.
~ Scott Lynch
If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.
~ Scott Lynch
Get the dogshit out of your ears, you witless corpse-fart,' growled Jean. 'Do you want to do as you're told, or do you want to kiss that pavement?' It turned out he wanted to do as he was told.
~ Scott Lynch
HE BROKE the Secret Peace the first night I had him, the cheeky little bastard.
~ Scott Lynch
Wars, disease, taxes. Bowing heads and kissing boots. There's plenty of hungry damn things prowling on land, Orin. It's just that the ones at sea tend not to wear crowns.
~ Scott Lynch
At that moment I walked across the deck and, though many hands tried to hold me back, flung myself into the sea.
~ Scott O'Dell
We will not be used. We will not let them change us. They think we are property? They are mistaken.
~ Scott Sigler
Life's a drag. There is no gravity. Earth Sucks!
~ Scott Smith
When I was seventeen and in full obedience to my heart's most urgent commands, I stepped far from the pathway of normal life and in a moment's time ruined everything I loved –– I loved so deeply, and when the love was interrupted, when the incorporeal body of love shrank back in terror and my own body was locked away, it was hard for others to believe that a life so new could suffer so irrevocably. --Endless Love
~ Scott Spencer
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
~ Scott Stapp
You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
~ Scottish Proverb
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
~ Seamus Heaney
I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.
~ Seamus Heaney
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
~ Voltaire
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
~ Erich Fromm
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.
~ Isa Bowman
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
~ Kingsley Amis
I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
~ L.A. Meyer