Quotes About Defiance

I like to be against the odds.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.

I always go against the odds.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

I fought fire with oil.

I don't give two hoots about nasty comments. I can laugh over them when they are about me but it's not okay to attack my family, my children. I can't take it. My claws will come out.

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly is John. It has been John for years.

shit, I'll show these fuckers! We'll see who can take fucking drugs. Do they realize who I am? Don't you know I can eat the God-damned hottest fucking hot sauce in the world.

Ginsberg and those coffee houses with hungry-looking guitar players never did mean shit to me. They never took their drinking seriously.

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

Je préfère devenir aveugle, être brûlée dans un incendie ou mourir par petits morceaux que d'adresser la parole à ce bouc. Ce que j'ai fait à son Vendredi, je suis prête à le refaire. Ces gens-là ne sont ni des parents, ni des amis, ils sont prêts à lécher le derrière des toubabs pour avoir des médailles, tout le monde le sait. Ne pleure plus, lève-toi, on s'en va. Moi j'ai assez vu leurs figures!

Ajax defending his honor when he fought against Troy along with Ulysses, who claimed his actions enabled the Greeks to be victorious. The chiefs side with Ulysses, and Ajax, having lost his honor as a warrior, draws his sword and proclaims: But this at least is mine, or does Ulysses claim this also for himself? This I must employ against myself; and the sword which has often reeked with Phrygian blood will now reek with its masters, lest any man but Ajax ever conquer Ajax.

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k 'em – 'cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can't remember anything.