Quotes About Defiance

Thieves, drunkards, lunatics, wastrels, and whores we might all be, but there ain't a coward among us.

Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last, laughs longest and I intend to belly roll tonight.

They cannot put their stamp upon your soul

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Yes, ha ha! And I minced fifty more like him, so you'd better run!

He knocked me off my horse. But I'd taken an oath, so I had to do my best." I drew in a shaky breath. "I know I can't fight forty of you, but I'm going to stand here and block you until you either go away or my arms fall off, because this, too, is an oath I took.

You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to? Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could.

I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry. The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony. Galdran's face flushed dark purple. "I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.

Sally at this time gave up any notion of being a co-operative member of a family, named herself Tiger and settled down to an unceasing, and seemingly endless, war against clothes, toothbrushes, all green vegetables, and bed.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. "No," she said aloud, and the one word echoed.

But—I don't want to knock anyone. Even if you think I do, what do I care?

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

This was a reminder that a man can defy God for only the brief instant that his life flickers across the expanse of eternity.

El amor no crea regla alguna, las rompe todas Sigrid Undset

Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she—this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"—deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

Onder een lantaren stonden zij stil, en uitdagend hief zij het gezicht naar hem op, in trotse houding: de eeuwig stereotiepe stand van de slavin, die, gekeurd op de markt, meesteres weet te zijn over de aanstaande meester. (p.125)

Un enfant, c'est un insurgé.

Tinha caprichos, desobedecia simplesmente pelo prazer de não obedecer. Nas fotografias de família, eu mostro a língua, viro as costas e em torno de mim os outros riem. Essas pequenas vitórias animavam-se a não considerar insuperáveis as regras, os ritos, a rotina; constituem as raízes de certo otimismo que devia sobreviver a todos os processos de adestramento.

A woman on her own they think they can do anything how despicable people are when you're down they stamp on you. I kick back I keep my end up but a woman alone is spat on.

Contact with the sword causes the same defilement whether it be through the hilt or the point.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write

But with rising stubbornness he asserted that if he had to take the arts as something in which he must pass an examination, he would chuck them altogether and be content with poker.

Go. Run with it. Make trouble.