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Quotes About Defiance

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One
~ Carol Anshaw
Touched by an angel, my ass!" roared the woman, whom I recognized despite the ash covering her face: Moondance. "I'll touch you, asshole!" She fired again.
~ Carol Goodman
She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.
~ Carol Lee
Hubris, thy name is Mallory -- she believed she could get away with mouthing off to the chief of D's in front of witnesses. She could not. Coffey could tell that much by the change in the atmosphere -- the dead silence of a room with too many guns in it.
~ Carol O'Connell
My face had a disagreement with a fist about occupying the same space. The fist had the upper hand.
~ Carole Lawrence
There comes a point when the universe needs to get on your side or go fuck itself and the universe gets in line.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I wake up first. I go into your bathroom, into your tub and I piss all over the floor of the shower and mark my place, my home, you.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.
~ Caroline Weber
You call me Red again, Mister, and you won't need one. What you'll need is a pine box and a preacher to read about you lyin' down green pastures.
~ Carolyn Brown
You are always asking me why the people don't do something, why they put up with this brutality, why they don't rise up against it, this and that. Okay. You're exhausted, you're shocked, you're sick to your stomach, and you feel dirty. These things are what people feel every day here—and you expect them to get themselves organized? You expect them to fight back? Could you fight back at this moment?
~ Carolyn Forché
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.
~ Carolyn Keene
She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?" "Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.
~ Carrie Jones
You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.
~ Carrie Vaughn
Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority-
~ Carrie Vaughn
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
~ Carroll O'Connor
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
~ Carroll Shelby
You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!
~ Carry Nation
You died in the end, but you fought first.
~ Carsten Jensen
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
~ Casanova
in the event of an "authoritarian revolution," authoritarians may seek massive social change in pursuit of greater oneness and sameness, willingly overturning established institutions and practices that their (psychologically) conservative peers would be drawn to defend and preserve.
~ Cass R. Sunstein
More brave than firm, and more disposed to dare And die at once than wrestle with despair...
~ George Gordon Byron
I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.
~ George Gordon Byron
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~ George Gordon Byron
Homage he has from all - but none from me... I battle it against him, as I battled in highest heaven - through all eternity, And the unfathomable gulfs of hades, and the interminable realms of space, And the infinity of endless ages... all, all will I dispute. -Lucifer
~ George Gordon Byron