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Quotes About Defiance

The earth would crack and swallow this glittering, self-important place before I would show a trace of despair.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.
~ Patrick Süskind
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
~ Patrick Süskind
You will not deny me what is mine!" "I'll deny like a politician under oath," said Murphy.
~ Unknown
You steal from me and you will have made an enemy for eternity." "Oh, goodie. I hear my enemies have a club now, even have weekly meetings. Maybe you can join and learn the secret handshake." The Crone was not amused and still was waving her flaming arm. "That's not the handshake, but it's surprisingly close. The middle finger needs to be extended more.
~ Unknown
A man with a mace for a hand stood in front of the gates with a frown that undoubtedly took centuries to perfect.
~ Unknown
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
~ Patsy Cline
People say beware, but I don't care. Their words are just rules and regulations to me.
~ Patti Smith
We were the rebels without a cause and he was our Sal Mineo.
~ Patti Smith
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.
~ Paul Auster
Fuck Edison and his goddamned lightbulb.
~ Paul Auster
No?i koje je tamo proveo bile su gotovo nepodnošljive, pa kakav je to dobar dom ako se u njemu ne osje?aš sigurnim, ako se, upravo na mjestu koje smatraš pribježištem, prema tebi odnose kao prema nekom izop?eniku? Nije pravo zatvoriti dušu u mra?nu kutiju. To ?ine nakon smrti, ali dok si živ, sve dok u sebi imaš i onaj zadnji atom snage, dužan si samome sebi i svemu svetom na ovome svijetu ne pristati na takvo poniženje.
~ Paul Auster
When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
~ Paul Auster
Onunla mücadele etmek demek, onu kabul etmi? olmak demek, hay?r demeyi istemek çoktan evet demek anlam?na geliyor.
~ Paul Auster
I refuse the blindfold and take the most glorious toke ever taken in the history of pot smoking. Call every racially profiled, abortion-denied, flag-burning, Fifth Amendment taker and tell them to demand a re-trial, because I'm getting high in the highest court in the land.
~ Paul Beatty
Unmitigated Blackness is simply not giving a fuck. Clarence Cooper, Charlie Parker, Richard Pryor, Maya Deren, Sun Ra, Mizoguchi, Frida Kahlo, black-and-white Godard, Céline, Gong Li, David Hammons, Björk, and the Wu-Tang Clan in any of their hooded permutations.
~ Paul Beatty
jalapeño peppers snapped in half and ground into our lips for saying "fuck
~ Paul Beatty
Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
~ Unknown
The search for ground lights is not enough. There is the axis to be followed and '—dot dot dot—' forgotten. You must above all find lightness, buoyancy, the permanent defiance of gravity.
~ Paul Celan
They treat me like some sort of pet cat but claws I have, and claws I will use
~ Unknown
I said, "Nég Mawon toujou kanpé!!" —the free man is still standing!! And she replied, powerfully. "Cheri, Nég Mawon p'ap jamn krazé" —my dear, the free man will never be broken.
~ Paul Farmer
We are witnessing the uglification of the world, the Globalist goal is to make the whole planet identical in its atomizing dreariness by dulling our senses they hope to dull our very life essence. This is all inherently totalitarian, but in an Age of Ugliness a work of beauty is an act of defiance.
~ Unknown
My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?
~ Paul Robeson