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Quotes About Defiance

Towanda the Magnanimous, Righter of Wrongs and Queen without Compare.
~ Fannie Flagg
don't. So there.
~ Fern Michaels
goddamn well dare the two of you to
~ Fern Michaels
Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.
~ Fernanda Eberstadt
If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all. But since I'm what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Believe me, circumstances are never favorable. We should not depend on them. What is important is what one feels, what one wants, what one knows. We have to live despite reality and even against it, without waiting for it to be conducive as do the deluded, or the cowards.
~ Fernando Savater
Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Go back to hell where you came from, you old warthog
~ Flannery O'Connor
My heroine already is, and is Hulga.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.
~ Evelyn Ashford
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
~ Andre Malraux
I am as fearless as the Rani of Jhansi and I will fight against all those people who are dragging me in controversy.
~ Rakhi Sawant
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
~ David Hockney
Not only do I do things so much better than all of my fellow 'Divas,' I make being bad look so good.
~ Michelle McCool
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.
~ Leila Slimani
I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
~ Alexei Navalny
I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.
~ Gianluigi Buffon
If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.
~ Sukarno
I've been a fighter all my life. I just don't look like that.
~ Mazie Hirono
When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'
~ Haris Pasovic
I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.
~ Andrew Breitbart