Quotes About Defiance

She had been meant to die, yet she'd cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us!

This is bullshit. You think I care what other people think? What does age have to do with it? Why can't you be that girl? As for what I want to do with my life, why can't I figure that out with you?

We have to talk. She paused in the act of sweeping up hair from the floor and glanced at him. I don't think so. Maybe I'm here to tell you what you want to hear. You look way too angry for that to be true. I'm guessing you want to threaten me. I don't accept threats during work hours and I'm on the clock for another hour. He swore silently. Jason was right - she had balls. Giant ones.

Mrs. Smith looked confused. She looked to Mrs. Nelson, who pleasantly but determinedly attempted to stare down Ellery. Ellery wasn't having any of it. He stared back. Mrs. Nelson was not to be outdone. She beetled her brows in disapproval. Ellery delivered the coup de grâce and arched one eyebrow. Defeated, Mrs. Nelson slumped back in her chair.

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.

I was caught between the crossfire of the atheist school and a Baptist church and family. Both had a prescription for how I was supposed to think and behave. On most points, they actually agreed. I was supposed to be clean, have short hair, talk modestly, listen and obey, never fight. Consequently, I was slovenly, grew long hair, and fought every day.

My friend gave me an opportunity to be bad, that is, free.

You can't take the sky from me.

I fear, I despair, I die and I live again through my hope. How many times have I not been dead and resuscitated? They are all here around me, men, jinns, but I do not care! If they think they can forbid me from seeing you: I shall come to you anyway!

Entonces, lamentándose por haber destruído una flor que era bella cuando estaba en el tallo, piensa: ¡Qué energía y que fuerza vital!¡Cuánto ha luchado para defenderla!

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Si te dan papel rayado, escribe de traves" "Bila mereka memberimu kertas bergaris, tulis di sebaliknya

Muy achacado Etchenike, con los riñones marchitos a patadas, una ceja partida y el orgullo como una especie de trapo que llevaba pegado a los zapatos, arrastrándolo por la calle sin convicción ni esperanzas de llegar a ninguna parte.

You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.

What isn't expressed in any of the definitions given above is a perception of the witch as a figure of female empowerment: in a world of good, polite, agreeable, well-behaved, passive girls, the witch is an independent, empowered, autonomous, frequently assertive, and defiant woman, beholden to no one. (Unless,

You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.

I'm not a girl. I'm a hatchet

ambos sabemos que mi madre no dejará el castillo, que afrontará la muerte mirándola de frente porque no teme a nada ni a nadie, ni siquiera a Dios.

Tiene gracia que usted me pregunte por qué no nos rebelamos cuando ustedes viven bajo la bota de Sadam.

If there remains the smallest, most meagre fighting chance, I shall still fight, --- a losing battle no doubt, but I would consider myself unworthy of my own ideas, were I to give in before I completely convinced that all is lost.

If you begin giving up, they will go on grabbing till they get everything. ---Queen Victoria

Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. "Let's walk in the garden," she said softly. "We can't." "We must." "We can't.