Quotes About Defiance

Mrs. Mudkin closed her eyes. We should pray. I ain't praying, Crazy Cora said. Mrs. Mudkin said, Lord, please bless--- I ain't praying. --this land and the people who-- I ain't praying. --have toiled on this earth-- Stop that praying. I can pray if I want to. Then be quiet about it.

He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.

He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.

The Welsh do make the worst enemies. They do not play by your rules, they win when they're not supposed to, and they do not know when they're beaten.

Louis shook his head. Those who dismiss women as the weaker sex, he said mildly, have never met the Countess of Leicester.

Time's up, Ladies. Let's go back inside. We can sit by the fire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya, Seth called from the front porch. Fucker, Hammer muttered. I think we should beat his ass next, Liam muttered conspiratorially. Both men cracked a knowing grin. As if they'd read one another's minds, they raised their right arms and flipped Seth off, laughing. It felt good.

he "rules" with a kind of Gaullist grandeur, testing the constitutional limits of office, while pursuing a politics of "daring, sacrifice," and "nobility."30 Above all, ideally the executive stands not for programs but for "virtue." That means, among other things, he is prepared to act in defiance of the popular will.

You admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof. Did you learn nothing in Boot Camp? (Mace to Smitty)

What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.

Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly.

I'm a freak with power.

Fuck you,' Samuel said as he stole the ball, drove down the court, and went in for a two-handed, rattle-the-foundations, ratify-a-treaty, abolish-income-tax, close-the-uranium-mines monster dunk.

Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.

My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire. My mullet said to the literary world, Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.

Why did you punch him?" she asked. "He was bullying me." "You should have just walked away." "He called me 'chief.' And 'squaw boy.' " "Then you should have kicked him in the balls.

So, yeah, honestly speaking, fuck you, Xavier, and the farm-raised salmon you rode in on.

We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked. - Urian

Nick - Psycho-ass? You're bringing psycho-ass back? Zarek - That's Mister Psycho-ass to you, punk.

Don't let those people steal your day

You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker) Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

You're human. No one cares if you sleep with a whore. (Artemis) (Tory did something she'd never in her life done before. She slapped another person.) You ever insult Acheron again and so help me, I'll do to you what you allowed your brother to do to him. I'll cut your tongue out for it. Acheron is the man I love and no one, ever, takes issue with him without having issues with me. (Tory)

You will fail and I'll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

No offense, Dorian. Oh, what the hell, take all the offense you want, it's not like I give a shit. (Savitar)