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Quotes About Rebellion

If I ever have a boyfriend, I will force him to move to my street, so we can sneak out at night and wander around, being silly and all.
~ Unknown
The day I talk about heels being the best thing ever, I want someone to hit me.
~ Unknown
Let me give you some advice. Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason. I'd hate to see my sister turned to cinders for nothing.
~ Madeline Miller
But there was something in me that was sick of fear and awe, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me.
~ Madeline Miller
You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out." His body was rigid with wrath. He looked as though he had swallowed a stone, and it choked him. "Give Mother my greetings," I said. His jaw bit down and he was gone.
~ Madeline Miller
Eskiden beri çocuklar?m?n en kötüsüydün," dedi. "?erefime leke sürmeye kalkma sak?n." "Benim daha iyi bir fikrim var. Can?m?n istedi?ini yapaca??m, sen de çocuklar?n? sayarken beni aralar?na katma.
~ Madeline Miller
You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
But he could tell your father. He might be angry." I said it almost desperately. Soon my skin would grow too warm, and I would no longer be able to think. "So what if he is?" The first time he had said something like this, I had been shocked. That his father might be angry and Achilles would still do as he wished—it was something I did not understand, could barely imagine. It was like a drug to hear him say it. I never tired of it.
~ Madeline Miller
Il pensiero che suo padre potesse essere in collera e che tuttavia Achille continuasse a fare ciò che voleva, era una cosa incomprensibile per me, a stento immaginabile. Sentirglielo dire era come una droga. Non ne avevo mai abbastanza.
~ Madeline Miller
You have always been the worst of my children,' he said. 'Be sure to not dishonor me.' 'I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
I fucked the sacred bull, all right? Now get the thread.
~ Madeline Miller
Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.
~ Madeline Miller
So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure to not dishonour me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk
~ Unknown
Papa Don't Preach
~ Madonna
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
~ Madonna
Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.
~ Unknown
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
~ Mae West
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.
~ Mae West
I have never found it difficult to abandon a group , to go against the alpha male or female. I have never much cared for gangs, for social tribes , for fitting in. I have known since I was very young that the in-crowd isin't my crowd;they are not my people.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn't like.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Aged sixteen, is what she sees first. Then: Insists on keeping her hair long. Iris reads the whole document from beginning to end, then goes back and reads it again. It ends with: Parents report finding her dancing before a mirror, dressed in her mother's clothes.
~ Maggie O'Farrell