Quotes About Defiance

Bloody hell," Phillip finally burst out. "If you're going to break my legs, would you just go ahead and do it now?

What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian. "Exactly what you think, my lady," he said.

you may tell your husband that if he so much as touches a hair on my fiancés head, I shall personally see to it that his liver is extracted through his mouth.

She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.

Some people broke rules. Others merely wished to.

It wasn't the same sort of defiant attitude she saw so often among young men of the ton. She'd met so many men of that kind - the ones who made such a point of defying convention, and then spoiled the effect by going out of their way to make sure that everyone knew how daring and scandalous they were.

Le han dicho alguna vez que es un poco testaruda? —Constantemente. Es mi único defecto. Escuchó cómo Phillip se reía. —¿El único? —El único que vale la pena comentar.

Then I hope you won't take offense when I say that proper young ladies really don't go about punching unsavory characters in the nose in London." "Oh, Aunt Caroline, proper young ladies really don't do that sort of thing in Boston, either.

And put me down." James kept walking, his arm a vise under her ribs.

So she settled for crossing her arms and skewering him with a glare. To no effect whatsoever. He just stared down at her and said, "No." Hyacinth opened her mouth one last time, then gave up, sighed, and said, "Well, I suppose if I could walk

We are not here to discuss my family," he ground out. "We are here to discuss your foolhardy behavior." "I refuse to acknowledge my behavior as fool-hardy. You would have done the exact same thing were you in my shoes.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

If all girls turn strong within themselves, men with bad intentions can be taught apt lessons.

Not such a big guy now, are you?" she purred, smirking at me. "You're gonna die tonight because you couldn't keep it in your pants. I bet right about now you're wishing you would have picked me over that fanger." "Never," I whispered hoarsely, struggling to get the words out. "I'd rather have the month I had with Taylor than a lifetime with you." "You fucking asshole!

Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world.

People ask me all the time how I survived. It wasn't that I was smarter or even stronger than anyone else. I didn't even know what I was doing. It was just that something inside me couldn't go along.

dare you to stop counting and start acting. To stop pleasing and start defying. I dare you to trust what you know. The second wind is beyond data.

Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities—

We see not because everything is visible, but because something always defies the eye, persisting beyond the remit of mere representation. This something, which Pasolini endeavors to situate at the heart of filmmaking, is preceisely 'that which always escapes from the grasp of that form of vision that is satisfied with itself in imagining itself as consicousness' (Lacan, 1998).