Quotes About Defiance

I'll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.

She'd spent her entire life playing second fiddle to perfection. She'd spent her life never being loved for being herself. She'd be damned if she accepted a lifetime of the same.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

You may still be standing, dear,' it read, 'but the rest of us are on the fucking floor.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said could not be done.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist—only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

De cum se intereseaza cineva de cartile mele,stiu ca e "terminat",ca ceva s-a frant in el,ca nu va fi in stare sa se "descurce" in viata.Nu strang in jurul meu decat invinsi. Patronul Invinsilor.

Cand esti nemultumit din nastere,tuni si fulgeri impotriva a tot,bun sau rau,nu ca sa indrepti ceva,ci ca sa-ti cheltui rezerva zilnica de indignare.

Mai bine s-o rupi cu toat? lumea decât s?-nghiÅ£i o umilint? dup? alta.

Zadarnic supunem universul È™i ni-l însuÈ™im, atâta vreme cât nu vom fi învins timpul vom r?mâne doar niÈ™te sclavi.

I shall never utterly admire anyone except a man dishonored — and happy. There is a man, I should say, who defies the opinion of his fellows and who finds consolation and happiness in himself alone.

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.

This world can take everything from us, can forbid us everything, but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out.

You're against everything that's been done since the last war," said the very up-to-date lady. "You've got the wrong date: I'm against everything that's been done since Adam.

When you live past the age of rebellion, and you still rebel, you seem to yourself a kind of senile Lucifer.

What dates most is rebellion - that is, the most vital of our reactions.

We can act only against the truth. Man starts over again every day, in spite of everything he knows, against everything he knows.

Of all those who suffered a long period of slavery, they alone have succeeded in resisting the charms of abulia.

Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujeres de bien, ¿eh, condenada? ¿Llevó medias alguna vez tu madre? ¿Peinóse como tú, que siempre estás dale que tienes con el cacho de espejo? Toma, para que te acuerdes...".

I'd rather die on my feet, than live upon my knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

I am Born Free How Someone Can Hold Me In The Manacles of Slavery.