Quotes About Defiance

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

Despite all my rageI am still just a rat in the cage.

Don't care is what I've been trying to say .... but not able to !

You can't be beaten by something you laugh at.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid a great sea of uncertainty, deprivation and fear.

Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill." And so I did.

but his smile was slow and wide. "I don't know, Clark. Some people just won't be told.

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He

Yes, I handed in my notice. Yes, I know Mum and Dad are not too happy about it. Yes, yes, yes to whatever it is you're going to throw at me.