Quotes About Defiance

Don't follow leaders.

But if the arrow is straight And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick. So I'll make my stand And remain as I am And bid farewell and not give a damn.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'. -- Highlands from Time Out of Mind (1997)

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be free to explore, to defy the conventional wisdom if necessary. It meant the reporters, whatever they covered, had to find the bookkeepers and the Deep Throats if possible. At the same time, as we had just been reminded, reporters need editors. In the end we are collaborators and they make the final calls.

You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women," he said. "If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. That was a big mistake you made. You didn't come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness. You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

When life flips you the bird, flip it the bird back. Scar tissue is stronger than skin.

Don't you know me by now, Angel? I never do what I'm meant for.

When your enemies succeed because they aren't constrained by rules, at some point you have to either accept defeat, or tear up the rulebook.

Dan beranikanlah dirimu membuktikan kebenaran yang kau benci!

You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you!

Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world.

If Cosgrove means to play games, then so do I. I will marry him because I must, but I shall not be a lamb- or a cow- led to the slaughter. If he intends to destroy my spirit, he will find it a difficult task. I am not some fly whose wings he can pull off and then step on. I'm... I'm a bee, and I shall sting him back.

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. What is it with you and giving people the finger? What? It's a classic.

I threw my head back and screamed bloody murder, completely fed up with everyone in my life.