Quotes About Defiance

Kate gave a disdainful wave of her hand. "I poo-poo the chit." The attendant looked stunned. "You cannot poo-poo the chit!" "I do," she said solemnly. "I do poo-poo.

Let us have madness openly, O menOf my generation. Let us followThe footsteps of this slaughtered age.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

I will never apologize for the United States -- I don't care what the facts are.... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.

After 'Freaks and Geeks ' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek ' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

I'm not a dog

Since I didn't have any world-class fencing skills, I kicked Cernunnos in the nuts again. I didn't have to know how to use a sword to do that, and he was standing there like he was asking for it, so it seemed justified. Shock and rage filled his green eyes all over again and he doubled. I guess there must be rules that people fighting gods usually followed. Next time, maybe someone would give me a primer.

I swayed between fear, defiance, and nausea, and was wholly the prey of my passion. I could not and did not want to listen to the depths. But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me: "Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead.

It would seem that, with Spitteler, the Promethean creativity falls to the soul, while Prometheus himself merely suffers the pangs of the creative soul within him. But Goethe's Prometheus is self-activating, he is essentially and exclusively creative, defying the gods out of the strength of his own creative power:

The world was full of ugliness, Sebastian knew that; ugliness, and ugly people. But you couldn't let them win, those men who took what they wanted with never a thought or care for the ones who suffered and died as a result. You could never stop fighting them, never let them think that what they did was right or somehow justified. Never let them triumph unchallenged.

She demands more than she ever gives and rarely shows any gratitude. I hope you're prepared. The only thing she hates more than being told what to do is being told what she should not do.

Venciste, mujer, con no dejarte vencer.

The people of Abadan defended the city with empty hands, and our sons and brothers fell to the ground like flowers in the fall. My friend, believe me, today the date palms are broken. Tell me, when will our youth, our date palms, be green again?

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one.

But my heart rebelled.

They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

With pencil, with chalk, with a brush I shall seek its form -- with my hands I shall model what tyranny deforms.

The enemy perhaps may challenge my sex for that I am a woman - so may I likewise challenge them, for they are but men.

She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.

Anyhow, she didn't care, that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.