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Quotes About Defiance

Floyd can say whatever he wants about me. He knows that I gave him the toughest fight of his life.
~ Marcos Maidana
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I learned about fighting from taking on the National Front skinheads outside Ilford Town Hall in the 70s - they were big men and we were 14 or 15-year-old boys.
~ Nigel Benn
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
~ William Wallace
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.
~ John Sherman Cooper
When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.
~ Julian Barratt
Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
~ Patrick Ness
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
~ Betty Smith
I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.
~ Muhammad Ali
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.
~ Marilyn Manson
A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
~ Alexander Hamilton
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
~ Kevin Smith
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.
~ Tony Gaskins
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.
~ Nelson Mandela
You didn't do anything. But I won't let anyone talk to you like that.. I don't care who they are." "You ready to fight the whole town then, darlin'?" She pursed her lips and said without even a bit of hesitation, "If I have to.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I'll dismember you while you're still breathing. And, in case you're concerned, because it seems like you'd be concerned—you're clearly very caring—I won't miss a lick of sleep or have any PTSD over it. Your screams will mean nothing to me, because I won't give a fuck. Why? Because I'm a cunt. I'm a raving, raging cunt.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Are you really coming at me?" "Lady, I'm trying to be nice to you. But I wouldn't push your luck with me." "You? Tiny little hybrid freak? What are you going to do?" "Morally reprehensible things that most good people would be appalled by.
~ Shelly Laurenston
You know what really pisses me off?" Charlie asked as she dragged her yelling cousin behind her. "I mean, besides when assholes such as yourself believe they can put their hands on women without their consent.
~ Shelly Laurenston
One body, one breath, one love, united against any force that would tear them apart. Defiant in the face of time, fate, death, destiny.
~ Shelly Thacker
She lifted her chin and returned his unyielding gaze. "Do what you will." His blue eyes darkened to the color of a moonlit sky. "You should be careful, milady, about issuing such an invitation.
~ Shelly Thacker