Quotes About Defiance

I'm not going to live with you! a small voice shouted from the kitchen doorway. Beth looked past Keith to see Ben, his expression horrified. Ben started to back away. I'm not going to do it!

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

My friends think I'm a candidate for a lobotomy, and my competitors think I'm naive or stupid or both. But you know what? I don't care.

I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.

I don't care if someone calls me names.

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

If we must be extinguished, let it be on our own terms.

You do not make your enemy afraid by selling out. You make your enemy afraid by refusing to submit, by fighting for your vision, and by organizing.

It is impossible to defy "radical evil"—a phrase originally coined by Immanuel Kant to describe those who surrender their freedom and morality to an extreme form of self-adulation and later adopted by Hannah Arendt to describe totalitarianism—without "sublime madness.

I never been one to favor laws.

Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

Nothing's bigger than me! Frey shouted back. Me is all I've got.

She was no longer a coward, forcing bravery from herself—she was brave. "You're not going to kill me," she said, and with swift impatience, she jabbed her elbow in his gut.

I didn't burn down anyone's house! I didn't. I wouldn't!" Maddie looked at Jacob. "You know I wouldn't. I didn't kill you when I had the chance!

I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.