Quotes About Defiance

it. And if you ever strike me, I shall hit back. If you ever use me in anger or out of a wish to punish, I shall leave you.

However, I did not go home, and I must face him. And I shall do so without a blush or a tremor. I shall not give him the satisfaction of knowing that I even remember yesterday and last night.

She hastily tried to shut the door. But his forearm shot up and held it open. They stared at each other for several silent moments. "What are you doing here?" she demanded at last. It was only at that moment that she realized Lady Baird was standing behind him. "Pitting my strength against yours to hold the door open," he said in his usual bored, rather haughty tone. "It is a battle you cannot win, Catherine. Let us in?

She did not move. She had her eyes closed. I don't care, she said after a few moments of silence, about tomorrow or about propriety or about anything except tonight and this place. And you.

Remove your hands from me, my lord, she said calmly. I have nothing to say to you, now or ever. I had never thought to hate anyone. But I believe I do hate you.

Et diye yedikleriniz meydan okuyor, et diye yedikleriniz ba? kald?r?yor, et diye yedikleriniz sava??yor! Et diye yediklerinizin nefesi ensenizde...

Certainly, nobody imagined that Mr. Lincoln would order an armed invasion over the affair. When he did exactly that, the entire South exploded with defiance and patriotism, cheering the new nation—sovereign and independent—that had just been born. In

But you are breaking the law! Yes. I am. Take this message to your masters – your Faris: I will continue to break the law, at all times, if the law is wrong. Stilted, and still a little pompous, Charles of Burgundry said, Honour is above Law. Honour and chivalry demand we protect the weak. It would be morally wrong to give the woman to you, when every man listening here knows that you will butcher her.

I couldn't have been more than six, but I was calling her an ignorant little bitch. Her momma stood on the porch step shaking her mop at me and saying there were snakes and lizards coming out of my mouth, to which I said i didn't give a shit.

It's distracting the boys, he says. You ponder what can be said that's enough of a fuck you. (The problem with fuck you's in this sort of place is that you habituate them; they lose their potency, and ergo must increase in outrageousness.) Finally you say, What makes you think I'm not wearing a bra, Mr. LeBump?

I, too, have been forced to stand close to it, and have felt the almost muscular agony of impotence before it, unable to interfere or assuage or do anything effective. Though I do—oh yes I do—believe the soul is improvable. Oh sweet and defiant hope! 5

Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea

many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain, and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being.

But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

Però la venjança m'ha mantingut viu: no gosava morir i deixar viu el meu adversari.

activists who engaged in unsanctioned demonstrations (by this time, most opposition demonstrations were unsanctioned) should expect "to be hit over the head with a stick.

That's how I survived. Time and time again. That's my secret. I survived because I willed it to be. ... How did I survive apocalyptic fire? I simply refused to feel the flames.

Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor, God of Thunder

believes the world is against him. Nothing

It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want to move the world forward.

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.