Quotes About Defiance

My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

How people admire the courage of the chevalier in the field, charging the enemy, when true courage is the knight who defies his friends.

Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.

If were all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down.

If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down

Emperor or Warmaster, he didn't give a damn whose name he had to salute. He had no respect for any of them.

He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.

When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not

When we are strongest—who draws back? Most merry—who falls down laughing? When we are very bad,—what can they do to us? —ARTHUR RIMBAUD

In the end, the unending strain with his father enhanced, rather than diminished, young Lincoln's ambition. Year after year, as he persevered in defiance of his father's wishes, managing his negative emotions and exercising his will to slowly master one subject after another, he developed an increasing belief in his own strengths and powers.

Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging "war on the railroads that ruled his state.

Our old friend maturity again! Well, I'm not going to be bullied by that one.

I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.

To tell a great story, you really do have to step through the box that the world has put around you; you have to see it. You have to see what the world has defined you as. And you have to refute it in language that the world will understand. ... Repay the debt that kept you alive, you will make an art and you will take a leap. And, oh God, I hope you get all the way over to the other side. Because some of us don't.

In the worst moments of my life, I have told myself that story, the story about a girl who stood up to a monster.

Go away and bleed to death,' said his onetime saviour sharply. 'On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Philippa said, to the scandalization of priest and secretary and chargé d'affaires, 'I think I'd like to get drunk.

I have a feeling that someone is going to be malicious, and we may as well set them a standard. Shall we go in, lewd and rude, and provoke them?

No. I won't. I won't bend my knee, or kiss your charming shoes either. I may possibly fall flat on my face, but that will be quite inadvertent.