Quotes About Defiance

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

When life kicks me, I kick it back.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

We remain because this our home. We both have lost land here. Should we leave it all to them? I will not.

JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom.

Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

No," she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: "I want them to see what they've done.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

I'm just really a wise ass kid getting wiser and I'm going to get even somehow for your dumb hatreds and all them war baby dreams you left in my scarred bed with dreams of bombs falling above that cliff I'm hanging steady to.

Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

That is the essence of women's sin natures in marriage. They often become stubbornly defiant and refuse to receive input from God or their husbands concerning issues in their lives and marriages.