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Quotes About Defiance

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of art as freely as I can, and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
~ James Joyce
Suck it yourself, sugarstick!
~ James Joyce
Enigmas hastiados de su tiranía: tiranos, dispuestos a ser destronados
~ James Joyce
As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.
~ James Joyce
Maybe YOU should suck my fuckin' dick. Then we'll see who's GAY.
~ James Kochalka
No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.
~ James Lee Burke
Die, Motherfuckers held what is called a group-conscience meeting, and Eddy was told to hit the bricks and never come back unless he wanted his head shoved up a Harley-Davidson exhaust pipe.
~ James Lee Burke
If you get your ticket ripped in half, you do it in hot blood, and you do not go gently into that good night.
~ James Lee Burke
No, I ain't. I'm shit and nails and all kinds of bad news.
~ James Lee Burke
This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.
~ James Lileks
I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.
~ James Luceno
Didn't you got back? I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
~ James M. Cain
Didn't you go back? I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
~ James M. Cain
describing the Confederate army as a "dark, rebellious host.
~ James M. McPherson
Ain't no worse thing in the world than fronting up against one of those, for a man with a cause, right or wrong, has got plenty to prove, and will make you suck sorrow if you get in the way of 'em wrongly.
~ James McBride
I read the book on not being explained to. That's called being an old colored woman, sir.
~ James McBride
Being a Negro means showing your best face to the white man every day. You know his wants, his needs, and watch him proper. But he don't know your wants. He don't know your needs or feelings or what's inside you, for you ain't equal to him in no measure. You just a nigger to him. A thing: like a dog or a shovel or a horse.
~ James McBride
Dr. Martinez: I take it you don't want me to call your parent? Max: Uh, no. Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
~ James Patterson
So you have you price, I said with a mouthful of crumbs. Your soul for a cookie. Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.
~ James Patterson
I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!-Gazzy
~ James Patterson
I stood my ground. You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out. Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy. Dang, I'm good.
~ James Patterson
Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
~ James Patterson
I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly.And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life. Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!
~ James Patterson
Max-I'm not going to die today.
~ James Patterson