Quotes About Defiance

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates

Four agin' two, and one of 'em a gutless, little female," Percy said with a cackling laugh. "I'd say that makes you purely outgunned, McClellen." "Guess again, you low-down polecat," Adam roared from out of the trees. Adam raised his gun and took aim at the unarmed man closest to his Sophie. Fury such as he'd never known cut through his soul.

She took a little pleasure in defying him. And it was a harmless defiance, especially if he didn't know she was here.

I'm not waiting for you or any other man to tell me anything ever again.

She stalked toward the door and as she swung it open, she turned back and said, "You're not even steady on your feet. You wouldn't last two minutes on the back of a horse, and I sure as shootin' ain't riding to town for the doctor. So you can just forget gettin' that cast off today. The doctor wouldn't agree to that fool notion anyway.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

It doesn't always take an army to save the world. Sometimes it takes just one person who won't let evil win.

May your horse kick stones in your enemy's teeth,

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased? I wanted to know. As

My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?" I turned my head. It was Wren, her hands planted on her hips. "Not that I don't think you could.

Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.

Weakness made you a target, and I had promised myself, long ago, I would never be a target again.

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.' And I will answer: 'Yes.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

You are a very sharp-tongued little girl," mother said, looking up at me. I am two inches taller than she is. "Unless you learn to curb yourself, there will be no parties for you, and no party dresses." This was the speach [sic] that broke the Camel's back. I could endure no more. "I think," I said, "that I shall get married and end everything." Need I explain that I had no serious intention of taking the fatal step? But it was not deliberate mendasity[sic]. It was Despair.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them