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Quotes About Defiance

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
~ Billy Joel
If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'
~ Christopher Sieber
Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.
~ Craig Ferguson
I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?
~ El-P
If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.
~ Emma Goldman
I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
A chill crept over Duiker. Even wheeled hospitals carried with them that pervasive atmosphere of fear, the sounds of defiance and the silence of surrender. Mortality's many comforting layers had been stripped away, revealing wracked bones, a sudden comprehension of death that throbbed like an exposed nerve.
~ Steven Erikson
In that moment, success or failure would lose all relevance. The triumph was in the stance. In the defiance. Because this is the essence of life itself. Human and wild, in that moment we are all the same.
~ Steven Erikson
If you want us leading you, well, one thing us humans don't understand, and that's giving up. We fight when the fight's been thumped out of us. We rebel when all we got left that's not in chains is inside our skulls. We defy when the only defiance we got left is up and dying.
~ Steven Erikson
You'll not have me, Lord, because you can't.
~ Steven Erikson
Bah! You're not worth the effort anyway!' And all at once she collapsed into a heap of spiders that scurried in all directions.
~ Steven Erikson
Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes
~ Steven Erikson
Empuñar la espada es el último acto de un hombre desesperado.
~ Steven Erikson
Shall I loose the fleas on my head to rend your worthless flesh from your jellied bones?
~ Steven Erikson
Will you accept that suffering defies boundaries and that pain carves no line in the sand?
~ Steven Erikson
But Raraku defied every season. Raraku itself was eternal in its momentousness, perpetually awaiting rebirth. Patience in the stone, in the restless, ever-murmuring sands.
~ Steven Erikson
Worm says fuck you, Assail!
~ Steven Erikson
and is she sorry? By Apsalar she is not!
~ Steven Erikson
You weren't punished for not doing what you were told. (...) They hurt you because they could, because there was no-one there who was capable of stopping them.
~ Steven Erikson
Gesler kicked one of the severed heads across the deck. Its uneven thumping was loud in the still air. 'Who still wants to live for ever?" he growled, then spat.
~ Steven Erikson
See this weapon in my hands? One false move and you're nothing but atoms!' Spark tilted its head. 'Confusion! Spark already is nothing but atoms! So is Klang Intruder!
~ Steven Erikson
We are the Hust Legion!' 'Indeed,' said Dathenar. 'And as it stands, lieutenant, we are also, to not put too fine a point on it, royally fucked.
~ Steven Erikson
Never apologize when you're right, Keneb.
~ Steven Erikson