Quotes About Defiance

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.

A man can stand up

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance. Excessive monitoring can set the stage for what Stephen Mitchell calls "acts of exuberant defiance.

The permanence and stability that we seek in our intimate connections can stifle their sexual spark, leading to what Mitchell calls "expressions of exuberant defiance,"3 otherwise known as affairs. Adulterers

Cochise : – We have fought long and as best we could against you. We have killed ten White Eyes for every Apache, but when one white man dies, many take his place. When one Apache dies, there is no one to take his place. We were no longer Indah , the living . We were now Indeh ... the dead .

Nefericire cel ce vrea s?-ÅŸi p?streze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! PuÅŸca, unde mi-e puÅŸca? (Se întoarce cu faÅ£a c?tre capetele de rinoceri din fundal ÅŸi strig?) Am s? m? ap?r împotriva lumii întregi, m? voi ap?ra! Sunt ultimul om ÅŸi voi r?mîne aÅŸa pîn? la cea din urm? suflare! Nu m? dau b?tut!

I'll take on the whole lot of them! I'll put up a fight against the lot of them, the whole lot of them! I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!

Philip had warned the Spartans that if he brought his armies successfully into their territory he would destroy their cities and kill all their people. They replied, rather magnificently, with the single word 'If'.

I wanted my unhappiness to be a result of defying convention—like a Hardy novel where I'd exceeded my society's allowance for freethinking and was now being punished.

I'm not scared," she says defiantly. "If the devil wanted me, he would have come for me when he got Chelsea.

FUCK THAT NOISE. I'M GOING TO RIP HIM TO PIECES.

Authority." I say the word as if it's a foreign expression I've heard for the very first time. "What about me makes you think that's a word I care for or yield to?

As she once remarked, "Disobedience is my joy.

Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which tamely surrendered were finished.

As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, 'There were more Russians than we had bullets.

could never brook authority or discipline.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

Fuck love and just get fat.

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to. I live, though, no matter what.

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.