Quotes About Defiance

Why don't you put on an animal's pelt and drag me to your house by my hair?

Rhett trapped her wrists in a circle of his fingers. "I love you, you abusive wench." His expression hardened. "And I'll kill that bastard Fenton if he tries to take you from me.

Me salí de mi carne, gocé el goce más alto: oponer una frase de basalto al genio oscuro que nos desintegra.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

I will always get a certain thrill of watching bullets bounce off Luke Cage.

A lot of the time I am told to clear the ball, kick it out, 'degager le ballon' they shout, but I can't do that and if I have to do that then it feels like a defeat for me. I don't know how to do it. I never get rid of the ball that way and when I am watching TV and I see players who do get rid of the ball then I don't accept it.

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

We will not have Americans telling us what to do... We cannot be brought to our knees.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't.

Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

You always feel like you've got something to prove, whether it be to yourself or somebody else. I can think of plenty of people along the way telling me I'll be nothing, working at McDonald's, doing things like that. The whole time, you're just trying to prove them wrong.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.