Quotes About Defiance

You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?" He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. "Who says I wear panties?" I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.

Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best . . . offense. "You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were . . . rude.

Leo stood behind him, his suit coat and tie off, rolling up his sleeves. "Oh, crap," I said, my voice full of gravel and bigger rocks, grinding over one another. I cleared my throat and tried again. "I'm too old for a spanking and not quite up to defending myself from a butt whupping. Can we do this another time?

If this idiot didn't watch his tone, I'd save the orthodox the trouble and run him through with a sword myself.

There was just no helping some people, she acknowledged to herself sadly. In fact, she thought, with a spurt of resentment, some people could be just downright unreasonable.

I cried tears you'll never see. So fuck you, you can go cry me a ocean and leave me be

You are made a slave in a moment by the world, if you don't begin life by defying it.

It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being good it would do nobody any harm if they learned to be a little bad - that is to say, burn down their houses, give away their children, put their husband in prison, steal his money and turn themselves into their husband's mistress.

This is our home, Detective Decker. At least until we all make it to the Holy Land. We were not intimidated by vandals. We will not be intimidated by rapists, thieves, or murderers. If the police can't adequately protect us, we will use our own means.

He didn't operate like anyone she had ever known. If he had rules, she had yet to discover any. When she told him to leave, he ignored her, just as he did when she told him she wanted to leave. And when he made love to her, he could make the whole world go away, until there were only the two of them and redhot fire....

YERMA. Yo he venido a estas cuatro paredes para no resignarme. Cuando tenga la cabeza atada con un pañuelo para que no se me abra la boca, y las manos bien amarradas dentro del ataúd, en esa hora me habré resignado. JUAN

When you are living under the wolves, you have to howl.' ....'I will never howl with these wolves.

Mientras más se prohíbe, menos se cumple.

Hago el bien porque me lo dictan las pelotas. Las que me cuelgan, grandes como las de mi amigo Gabito, como huevos prehistóricos.

History will absolve me.

At least the Nazis could have been, in Churchill's great and galvanic rhetoric, fought on the beaches, hills, fields and streets. They offered the 'chance to fight back'. The new German invasion, cloaked in the guise of peaceful co-operation, is more damnable because it does not give the English Resistance a proper physical target.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

A fruit basket would have been nice, but instead we found that a flyer had been slipped under the door. Dear Brainwashed Cowards, You are nothing but puppets of the corrupt Shah. We will teach you a lesson you will never forget. Death to the Shah. Death to you. My father crumpled the flyer and threw it away. "Let's find out where they're having the dinner buffet," he said.

How do you get a bully to back off when their foot is on your neck? Do you plead with them or do you bite the foot?

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

What if I say I'm not like the others What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender

Go hang yourselves [critics]… you shall never want rope enough.

It was a strange sight to see these black men rallying around the Stars and Stripes, when white men were trampling them under foot and riddling them with bullets.

But I don't want to be grateful. I'm tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it's no worse. I've had enough. It's time the pebble kicked back.