Quotes About Defiance

Now, you red-eyed devil, he said

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

And, dying, he declined to die.

So you're afraid, eh? he sneered. Yes, I said defiantly and honestly, I am afraid. That's the way with you fellows, he cried, half angrily, sentimentalizing about your immortal souls and afraid to die.

If looks could kill I should have been a dead man that day.  Openly they spat at sight of me, and, everywhere arose snarls and cries.

Çünkü onlar sadece etini yakm??, etin alt?ndaki ruh bütün görkemi ve el deÄŸmemiÅŸliÄŸiyle öfkesini korumuÅŸtu. Sahibinin tokad?ysa, etini yakmayacak kadar hafifti daima. Ama çok daha derinlere iÅŸliyordu.

The will to live, was his thought, and the thought was accompanied by a sneer.

This is the revolution, my masters. Stop it if you can.

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

Weamish looked here and there to discover the source of the call. Observing Twango and Soldinck, he uttered a wild cry in which defiance seemed mingled with mirth. That is at best an ambiguous response, said Soldinck.

Now then!" cried Vita Palas. "Don't you go slanging me, you raddled old hussy! I know your kind, all skin and spleen, and wrinkles to wrap over all! Your own morals are sewage, you with your dancing-boys and gigolos! Don't you try slanging me any more, or I'll snatch off your wig and really explain what I think of you! It will not be nice! It will turn your long nose blue!

It seems," said Gersen, "that troubles are catching up with you." Dasce spat at him. "Fah! What more can you do to me? Do you think I fear death? I live only out of hate.

Farmer hauled before constabulary court after attack upon the person of Bose Coggindell, Fellow of the Institute, 54th Degree, in self-justification: "These chaps have it easy. They lean back in their chairs and say, 'Suffer, you'll love it. Do it the hard way. Sweat.' They'd like me to hitch my wife to a plow, the way it used to be done. So I showed him what I thought of what he calls 'detachment'." Justice (after fining farmer 75 SVU):

Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.

Q: So then they desist? A: Usually. Q: And if not? A: I pitch them into the sea.

Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.

I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.

Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces.

And I eat what I please. Geez, I weigh a hundred and sixty, but who cares? And Anne Ã¢â'¬â€ I sing. Christ, I sing like a fucking canary.

He squared up to me, hands on his hips. 'Who's telling me to get into bed? You can't boss me around. You're not my mum,' he shouted. He was only clowning around.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.

You know, Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, you have an attitude problem. I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.

If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.