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Quotes About Defiance

But you know what? I'd rather the world considered me crazy while I go down fighting than spend the rest of my life hiding from the truth.
~ Gena Showalter
Pin his fucking legs." "Can't. Got his arms." "Knock him out, Paris." "Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I'm at it?" A
~ Gena Showalter
A tooth lay next to the far wall—it probably belonged to the guy who'd thought this would be fun. Ha! I had endured several fists to my stomach and now had a cut lip, and a bruised thigh. One of the men had actually pulled my hair and scratched my cheek, like a sissy girl who hadn't gotten her way. What a pussy.
~ Gena Showalter
Non sono una dei tuoi uomini; non puoi darmi ordini» si ribellò Gwen. «Se fossi una dei miei uomini, in questo momento mi vergognerei dei miei pensieri.»
~ Gena Showalter
Play by the rules, and lose to a rule breaker.
~ Gena Showalter
How are you doing, son?" "If you don't get started, I'll rip out your heart and have it for breakfast." - Michael to Solo
~ Gena Showalter
What should I do? he demanded of his demon, abandoning thoughts about "all of you." They'd gotten him nowhere. As Strider would say, the backpack and scroll could suck it. At
~ Gena Showalter
He's going to do her hard," one of them said. They were talking about Lucius, who was to be my new master. My reaction? Mental eye-roll and gag. The fact that Lucius had already "done" me pretty damn hard didn't factor into the picture.
~ Gena Showalter
There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
~ Gena Showalter
When we asked for permission, we were told no, but we did it anyway, because we knew we needed it.
~ Gene Kim
Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time, presistence in nonviolent struggle contributes to much greater chance for success than if the resisters had chosen to fight a militarily-prepared opponent violence
~ Gene Sharp
It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
~ Gene Sharp
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
~ General John Stark
And Irene hadn't broken the letter of any ordinances – she hoped. She'd just jumped up and down on the spirit of them, then taken them down a dark alley and made some pointed suggestions at knife-point.
~ Genevieve Cogman
What they say about females being the weaker sex is the biggest lie in the world.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
It is agayns the proces of nature.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Marie - Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim iÅŸte ben! B?çaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Dünya! Herkesin can? cehenneme, erkek, diÅŸi!
~ Georg Buchner
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
~ George C. Wallace
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
~ George Canning
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
~ George Carlin
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin