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Quotes About Defiance

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?
~ Lowkey
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.
~ Torii Mototada
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.
~ Bohemond I of Antioch
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
And put me down right this minute or I'll scream bloody murder, then do the job for real!" "I already hid all the electrical appliances, and I'm not taking a shower without locking you in the closet first.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?" Her eyes bore into his without flinching. "Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Creciste protegida, Daisy, pero yo lo hice de la manera más cruda. Mucho más cruda de lo que puedas imaginar. Cuando creces así, tienes que aprender a protegerte de alguna manera, tienes que aferrarte a algo que impida que te conviertas en una bestia. En mi caso fue el orgullo. Nunca me doblego . Jamás
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Has creado esta personalidad alternativa, una mujer tan dura que no le importa la opinión de los demás. Tan dura que se enorgullece de proclamar sus defectos a los cuatro vientos, sólo que estos defectos (no te lo pierdas, ésta es tu auténtica genialidad), estas taras que exhibes a la vista pública, nada tienen que ver con tu verdadera personalidad.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
De qué va esto, Alex? ¿Humillación? Ya he tenido bastante por esta noche. ¿Desprecio? También he tenido suficiente. ¿Odio? No, eso no funcionará; estoy demasiado entumecida para sentirlo. —Hizo una pausa, vacilando—. Me temo que tendrás que recurrir a algo distinto.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
No deberías desafiar a alguien que no tiene nada que perder.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. "I like your anger…. Don't you let anyone talk you out of it.
~ Susan Faludi
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.
~ Susan Griffin
Go to the devil Harry." I turned away, then looked back over my shoulder. "But you already have, haven't you?
~ Susan Higginbotham