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Quotes About Defiance

When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.
~ Adelina Sotnikova
Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.
~ Jim DeMint
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
~ Cyndi Lauper
As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.
~ Megan Fox
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
~ Therese Fowler
If someone tells me I can't wear something, that's the moment when I want to wear it.
~ Nick Wooster
I'll win the way I always do by being gone when they come. When they look, they'll see nothing of me and where I am they'll not know. This, I thought, is my way and right or wrong it's me. Being dead, then, I'll have won completely.
~ Robert Creeley
like cornered rats, the people of Hellion would not go down without a fight.
~ Robert Davis
I'm not a good dog trainer for the same reasons I am not a Republican: I endorse all forms of social anarchy.
~ Robert DeMott
One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.
~ Robert Desnos
Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.
~ Robert Dugoni
She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window.
~ Robert Dugoni
Maybe I'll have Julio ink a picture of you right on my ass, so I can always remember what a piece of shit you are.
~ Robert Dugoni
Fill your hands, you son of a bitch
~ Robert Dugoni
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine.
~ Robert E. Howard
You black dog!" A red mist of fury swept across Conan's eyes. "Were I free I'd give you a broken back!
~ Robert E. Howard
He had never fled from a single foe, and had the thought occurred to him he would have flushed with shame.
~ Robert E. Howard
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine. Conan- Rogues in the House
~ Robert E. Howard
If the Germans come', Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, 'we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.
~ Robert Edwards
Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.
~ Robert Fanney
Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!
~ Robert Fanney
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Bestigui, who was five feet six inches at the most, had pushed his way out from behind his desk now; as unafraid of the enormous Strike as a pit bull whose yard has been invaded by a Rottweiler.
~ Robert Galbraith