Quotes About Defiance

If someone calls you useless don't reply in words, but in acts and prove them wrong.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Just because You can not beat them... doesn't mean you should join them.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.

Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh – the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.

Sometimes I sit at my window looking out on the towers of the Abbas and weep silently. No one must know how I suffered. No one must know how I failed. Sometimes I go and stand in the ring of stones and it seems to me that my fate is more wretched then theirs. They were turned to stone while they were dancing defiance. I wish I could have been.

I quietly quaffed my cognac, discreetly admiring Lana's legs. Longer than the Bible and a hell of a lot more fun, they stretched forever, like an Indian yogi or an American highway shimmering through the Great Plains or the southwestern desert. Her legs demanded to be looked at and would not take no, non, nein, nyet, or even maybe for an answer.

Always resent, never relent.

Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds, volunteering to give up everything because they had nothing.

These invaders came to conquer our land and now would never go home.

Give me some good advice and I promise you that I will not follow it.

There are two kinds of people: those who don't do what they are told, and those who do only that.

When all men say you are a dog, it is time to bark.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

The Christian should never compromise God's principles to conform to the world's concept of good and evil, since unbelievers pervert good judgment through their lusts and blatant defiance against God.

As David said to Goliath, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied" (1 Samuel 17:45).

É que sinto em mim a obstinação e estou acima do que as pessoas possam dizer de mim e de minha obra

My parents and my whole family. Tersteeg, and along with him a lot of fellows who knew me when I was with Goupil & Co., went so far in their disapproval of all my doings that these last years, instead of wasting any more time on attempts to convince them, I, who have no time to waste, have simply given them the cold shoulder in my turn - and let them say, think, do whatever they like without minding it the least little bit.

When life gives you lemons, you put the lemons down and go burn down a building." —Unidentified Pyromaniac

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Death is the enemy…. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death.