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Quotes About Defiance

beneath her snaky black thundercloud of anti-coiffure.
~ William Gibson
The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration.
~ William Gibson
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
~ William Golding
Bollocks to the rules!
~ William Golding
I spit upon your God!
~ William Golding
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.
~ William Goldman
Surrender, the Prince said. It will not happen. SURRENDER! the Prince shouted. DEATH FIRST!
~ William Goldman
DON'T BE FRIGHTENED! Inigo screamed. I'M NOT, I'M NOT! Fezzik screamed right back.
~ William Goldman
Soy tu príncipe y te casarás conmigo —le dijo Humperdinck. —Soy vuestra sierva y me niego —susurró Buttercup. —Soy tu príncipe y no puedes negarte. —Soy vuestra sierva fiel y acabo de hacerlo. —Negarte significa la muerte. —Matadme entonces.
~ William Goldman
I am Inigo Montoya and I do not accept defeat.
~ William Goldman
Their intention, clearly, was to beat the censors at their own game. If pictures had to be neutered, they'd rather do the castration themselves.
~ William J. Mann
Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler.
~ William L. Shirer
Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you . . . uh . . . virago, you spitfire . . ." He rubbed his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at him without turning around.
~ China Mieville
I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.
~ China Mieville
Kim yaratm??t?? Kuma olmaktan, insan?n ruhuyla, bedeniyle tutsak olmas?ndan daha küçültücü ?ey var m? dünyada? Zavall? kad?nlar, mezarlar?n?zdan kalk?n! K?zl?klar? ellerinden zorla al?nm?? kad?nlar?n, a?a??lanm?? kad?nlar?n ruhlar?, kalk?n! Kalk?n, kötü dünyalar?, pis dünyalar? titretin! Ben ça??r?yorum sizi, ben, sonuncunuz! Ben, ba?kald?ran kuma.
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.
~ Chinua Achebe
And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In that year, I came to question everything I had believed in before. The only thing I never gave up on was the conviction that there can be no concession in the face of tyranny and oppression.
~ Chris Abani
Deach becomes some men. Others wear it shamefully; others still, defiantly. Their protest choking, suffocating.
~ Chris Abani
I'll leave," I retorted, finally regaining my cool, "but if the other customers are scared of anything, it's your own contumeliousness." "My what?" she asked, looking perplexed. "It's a vocabulary word," I said triumphantly. "Look it up.
~ Chris Archer
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived .
~ Chris Cleave
You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?
~ Chris Cleave
Then I'm tempted to die just to … spite him." "That's the spirit that will win us the war.
~ Chris Cleave
and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.
~ Chris Cleave