Quotes About Defiance

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

The sort where moon don't rhyme with June, and you're not up to your backside in bloody buttercups. Songs that aren't about your mum and dad. A bit rough, a beat that busts up the old way, the old stodge, the empire and knowing your place and excuse me and the dressing up and doing what you're told.

a unit can either fight a real enemy, or it must lose. And again, a unit not fighting a real enemy is in the service of another power - there is no middle ground. If a unit is not fighting for itself, it is fighting against itself.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

so try as you will you cannot make me feel embarrassment at what I find beautiful.

Orson arrived at the school lugging his makeup box, and once after a bully had attacked him, Orson repaired to the school washroom where he applied makeup so his face would resemble a bloody pulp. The bully screamed and fled. After that he left Orson alone.

Defiance or resignation? It seemed to me that both were in order, but the proportions of each had to be right. The mix—the recipe—had to make sense. The same went for hope and dread. I could wade into but not wallow in either.

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

I'll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I'll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him.

i prefer to die on my feet,than live on my knees

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

my words are love which willfully parades in its room, refusing to move.

Du kannst mich nicht vertreiben, nicht verbrennen und nicht ertränken. Dein Hass reicht nicht aus, mich zu besiegen, er macht mich nur stärker.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

They threw me a whirlwind And I spat back the sea

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.