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Quotes About Defiance

So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?
~ Bernard Cornwell
The Tippoo's life seemed charmed. He stepped in blood, but none of it was his and it seemed as though he could not die, but only kill, and so he did, cold-bloodedly, deliberately, exultantly defending his city and his dream against the barbarians who had come to snatch his tiger throne.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Entregue a criança. — Gundleus ignorou os insultos, sabendo que eram apenas desafios esperados de um homem antes da batalha. — Dê-me o rei aleijado! — Dê-me a sua prostituta, Gundleus — respondeu Owain. — Você não é homem suficiente para ela. Dê-me a prostituta e você pode ir em paz. Gundleus cuspiu.
~ Bernard Cornwell
But I hated Alfred. I hated him for humiliating me at Exanceaster when he had made me wear a penitent's robe and crawl on my knees. Nor did I think of him as my king. He was a West Saxon and I was a Northumbrian, and I reckoned so long as he was king then Wessex had small chance of surviving. He believed God would protect him from the Danes, while I believed they had to be defeated by swords.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I knew it was stupid, knew I would probably die if I went again, but we were warriors and warriors will not be beaten. It is reputation. It is pride. It is the madness of battle. I began beating Serpent-Breath against my half-broken shield, and other men took up the rhythm, and the Danes, so close, were inviting us to come and be killed, and I shouted that we were coming.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Sandino proved to the world that a people's army could resist every effort of the most modern military machine.
~ Bernard Diederich
Thou wanton: dost thou dare call me noodle?
~ Bernard Shaw
Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been "had" by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defiance, rebellion, and proofs of inauthenticity They have no idea of the suffering involved when someone with a genuine heart for God slips from the path.
~ Beth Moore
I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.
~ Keith Olbermann
The United States did not earn its reputation as leader of the free world by standing back and allowing darker forces to prevail.
~ Mike Quigley
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
~ Fiona Apple
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
~ Veronica Franco
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
~ Hugo Chavez
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
~ Butch Trucks
I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.
~ Kenny Wormald
I used to be really shy, and I think something happened in my brain where I was like, 'All right, I don't care anymore. I'm just going to be myself.' So I went to school wearing eyeliner and eye shadow, and they called my mom, telling her it was a distraction. My mom fought the school, and I got to wear makeup every day.
~ Jeffree Star
What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.
~ Jasmila Zbanic
People don't get signed by Def Jam every day on my block.
~ Dave East
The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.
~ Josh Homme
I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.
~ Yolanda Hadid
No one nor anything can silence me.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
~ Toyah Willcox