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Quotes About Defiance

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
~ Mel Brooks
He wanted to look at the face of his enemy - or at least upon his ashes.
~ Melanie Rawn
No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]
~ Melina Marchetta
What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.
~ Melina Marchetta
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.
~ Melina Marchetta
If he goes for my nose again, I fink I'll hang him up by his little balls,' one of the Guard said, getting to his feet. Froi tried to ignore the mockery. 'Nothing little about me,' he grunted. 'Don't take my word for it, Hindley. Ask your wife. She seemed happy last night, you know, with the size and all.
~ Melina Marchetta
I reach the bottom and smash into him with my fists as hard as I can. He falls and I can't believe he goes down that easy, caught off balance. "You care about nothing, you piece of shit!" I'm on the verge of tears, like I always seem to be these days, and I hear the catch in my voice and I hate myself for it. He throws me off him and I can tell there is a fury in him. "Never," he tells me in a tone full of ice, "under-estimate who or what I care for.
~ Melina Marchetta
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made comments about his mother. Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way. "You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.
~ Melina Marchetta
We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.
~ Melina Marchetta
How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it.
~ Melina Marchetta
Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)
~ Melissa Marr
They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.
~ Melissa Marr
He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. "That wasn't nice.
~ Melissa Marr
Donna say no. If you are, do it now and leave me alone. I can't take this, Maggie. You're killing me by small degrees.
~ Unknown
Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
~ Meljean Brook
We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.
~ Melvyn Bragg
We fight, therefore, we are!
~ Menachem Begin
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.
~ Mencius
O verdadeiro nome da mulher é «Sim». Alguém manda: «não vais». E ela diz: «eu fico». Alguém ordena: «não fales». E ela permanecerá calada. Alguém comanda: «não faças». E ela responde: «eu renuncio».
~ Mia Couto
for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.
~ Michael Azerrad
The loser," as TAD guitarist Kurt Danielson explained to the Rocket, "is the existential hero of the Nineties.
~ Michael Azerrad
And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.
~ Michael Azerrad
Daphne stopped and turned to the injured man. "I like my outfit," she said and stuck her tongue out. Mr. Applebee stuck his tongue out, too, and the little girl stomped out of the room.
~ Michael Buckley