Quotes About Defiance

You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly. His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

She sang. Loudly. Cheerfully. Defiantly. The sun will come up, to-mor-row... If the man battling the elements heard her, he gave no indication. She finished the songs she knew from Annie , then started on Phantom of the Opera. Tally sang to keep the fear tamped down. She sang to defy the storm. She sang to make sure God knew where she was since she couldn't think of an appropriate prayer. And she sincerely hoped He liked show tunes.

Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

is death I defy, not my own death, but the vast enterprise of death. The dark, primeval lusts for power and personal wealth, the hypermasculine language of war and patriotism, used to justify the slaughter of the weak and the innocent and to mock justice. I do

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

I'm not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I'd rather bash my head against a wall.

Genteel Republicans like Mitt Romney complain about Donald Trump's unpresidential behavior but how else does he combat the dirty left? Only a barbarian could defy the liberal establishment as he has done.

The more people were telling me that I couldn't come to school with make-up on my eyes, the next day I would just make my eyes even darker, and with black hair.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me I can't do something.

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric--must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while it is true that the more they assert themselves the more they govern, it is also true that the more they assert themselves the more opportunities they offer for being successfully denied.

To hell with them all. Don't let them worry you. Get all that you can. Don't give a damn for anything. Nothing gives a damn for you. To hell with it all! To hell with it! There are a lot of bad days. There are a lot of good ones. You'll forget. There are a lot of days.

Pay no attention to them, ladies, I beg of you, said Gant scathingly. They are the lowest of the low, the whiskey-besotted dregs of humanity, who deserve to bear not even the name of men, so far have they retrograded backwards. With a flourishing sweep of his slouch hat he departed into the warehouse. By God! said Ambrose Nethersole approvingly. It takes W. O. to tie a knot in the tail of the English language. It always did.

I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

But there is more – to rebel against what will not let life be.

When you're a member of the privileged group, you don't take kindly to someone telling you that you can't do something

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn't mean deliberately asking for trouble.

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

I rule the Empire now. Not some long-dead Emperor; certainly not you. the only treason is defiance of my orders.

when the rules don't work, you break 'em.

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

Doesn't matter who it is I'll friggin break 'em -Grimmjow jaggerjaques

Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it.