Quotes About Defiance

I'm not cs747," she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. "My name is Jean.

Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.

Insidious bastard," she whispered. "I don't know how you gave me that gut-jab of fear, but I won't forget you can use my own heart against me. I won't give up the landscapes in my care. Not even this one. And I won't let you have any of them. I'll find a way to do alone what it took hundreds like me to do the last time. And by the time I'm finished, I will lock you in a landscape even *you* will find unbearable.

Monty blinked. "On what charge, sir?" "On the charge of being a pain in my ass," Burke growled. "And right now, that is good enough for an overnight stay in our facility.

I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal

Professionally, sexually. In those days, when a woman hit thirty she went home and shut the door. So it is to her great credit that my mother refused to lie down and die.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Giving in to bullies just encouraged them. Bullies needed to be stood up to.

That women talked back in a time when they were increasingly expected to be submissive is a point to which we shall return.

You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see whether you can suffer like one.

He liked to introduce himself to his new victims with: "I am Kees Kaptein, the greatest Jew crusher in the Netherlands!

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence: que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avaint dédaigné.

Tout de même, supporter tant de mépris... Vronski, pire que Vronski.

Cette méchanceté était son ressort vital, sa force pour résister à la misère et croire qu'il était un homme.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence : que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avait dédaigné.

Thus ever to tyrants.

We are very clear that we will go to any lengths for the sake of protecting our national pride.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.