Quotes About Defiance

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Since the days of Bluebeard the Best way of getting a man to do a thing is to tell him not to do it

men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless Against them while they stand so.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

My heart Is a ship in the turbulent ocean defying the raging storm that they call love

Gonila me moja preostala selja?ka upornost i nemilosrdno jasna misao o potrebi da se branim. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri!

Ho?u da budem ?ovjek, borite se sa mnom ljudski! Uzalud... Prazan prostor oko mene sve je pustiji, moja smiješna pobuna sve tiša.

Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Walking past all the cops, all the detectives, I raise my runner's shirt a few inches, like I'm shaking it loose form my damp skin. I let them all see my stomach, its tautness. I let everyone see I'm not afraid, and that I'm not anything but a silly cheerleader, a feather-bodied sixteen-year-old with no more sense than a marshmellow peep. I let them see I'm not anything. least of all what I am.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

Courage refuses frontiers!

Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!

He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!