Quotes About Defiance

She was free. Trembling, she found her voice. 'You are hateful,' she whispered. 'Am I? Good. I enjoy being hateful occasionally. Good for the manly image and all that.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife.

I relish my life. It is a life of which I am fiercely protective. I have wrested it back from madness, and madness cannot take it from me again. I will not throw it away. So what if it isn't a normal life? It's the one I have.

Give up trying to make me give up

Fear is impotent when you challenge it.

Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.

She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from. It is a switch to another language. The kiss was an act of defiance, maybe of war. You can't touch us, is what the kiss said.

The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.

Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite amount of solar systems.

So she stopped trying to think about what to write and, in sheer exasperation, just put down the first thing that came to her, the thing that she felt inside her like a defiant silent roar that could overpower any external destruction. The one truth she had, a truth

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

They have anger. And they have nothing to lose." An

I'm going to talk to them. See if they'll stand aside." "They won't." "Then it will be a short conversation.

They have anger. And they have nothing to lose.

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman

Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves

The balls of this fucking girl.

You know I don't like being told what to do. Then do without being told.

Gibson has never had any qualms about doing things he damn well shouldn't.

If they do anything to hurt you," he growled fiercely, "I will come back and burn this place to the ground." "Quentin!" Georgina gasped in shock. "Don't talk like that!

His eyes flashed. "Don't be. I meant what I said about setting this muthafucka ablaze if anyone hurts my mama." Lexi gasped. "Q!