Quotes About Defiance

Prove to your haters that you are too big to hate back.

Don't ever do what your betrayers want, they want you to cry but you smile, be happy and prove them big losers.

Tell me,' I said, 'how do you know that your father is not right about my poisons? How do you know I will not drug you where you sit?' 'I do not.' 'Yet you would dare to stay?' 'I dare anything,' he said.

Let me give you some advice. Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason. I'd hate to see my sister turned to cinders for nothing.

Every day makes me old," she said. "I do not have your years to waste. As for that safety, I do not want it. It is only more chains. Let them come at me if they dare.

You dare to threaten me?" These gods, I thought. They always say the same thing.

I can veil the sky itself. Just try to watch me.

You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out." His body was rigid with wrath. He looked as though he had swallowed a stone, and it choked him. "Give Mother my greetings," I said. His jaw bit down and he was gone.

Eskiden beri çocuklar?m?n en kötüsüydün," dedi. "?erefime leke sürmeye kalkma sak?n." "Benim daha iyi bir fikrim var. Can?m?n istedi?ini yapaca??m, sen de çocuklar?n? sayarken beni aralar?na katma.

You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

I will tell them nothing. It is not for them to say what I will do. - Achilles

You have always been the worst of my children,' he said. 'Be sure to not dishonor me.' 'I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own.

I fucked the sacred bull, all right? Now get the thread.

Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.

Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.

Non mi sorprese come venivo ritratta: la maga altezzosaannichilita di fronte alla spada dell'eroe, inginocchiata a supplicare pietà. Le donne umiliate mi sembrano il passatempo preferito dei poeti. Quasi non possa esistere storia senza che noi strisciamo o piangiamo.

Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.

I have never found it difficult to abandon a group , to go against the alpha male or female. I have never much cared for gangs, for social tribes , for fitting in. I have known since I was very young that the in-crowd isin't my crowd;they are not my people.