Quotes About Defiance

Are you talking to me, or chewing on bricks? Either way you're gonna lose teeth!

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

We cannot live in a world that thinks it can fuck with America. Because once every piss-ant dictator, rebel, warlord, and terrorist thinks he can fuck with America, he will!

You're in trouble if you're trying to gain buy-in from someone who's feeling angry, defiant, upset, or threatened because, in these situations, the person's higher brain isn't calling the shots. If you're talking to a boss, a customer, a spouse, or a child whose lower brain or midbrain is in control, you're talking to a cornered snake or, at best, a hysterical rabbit.

Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something WRONG is something RIGHT. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole WORLD tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world-- --"No, YOU move.

THOU ART NO THOR!

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

Never forget: dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

I want bad girls to win.

They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made