Quotes About Defiance

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!

Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands. "For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl. 'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw. "What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?" -willow&bannor-

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed." When

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make?

But Decebalus was not one to be cowed easily, and still showed his spirit by taunting the Romans. As Trajan reached the Iron Gates, Decebalus sent him a warning inscribed rather surprisingly, according to Dio Cassius, on 'a large mushroom'. This was probably a mushroom-shaped dish used for ritual purposes, and sadly not the only instance in history of diplomatic correspondence by fungi. The inscription advised Trajan to turn back and 'keep the peace'.22

I've read better fecal matter patterns on toilet paper.