Quotes About Defiance

You may all go to hell, and I'll go to Texas.

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

I put my hands on my hips, not caring if I sounded like a Billingsgate fishwife. "Yes, it was a dangerous thing to do, but as it seems to have escaped your attention, I remind you I am above thirty years of age, of sound body and mind, and in control of my own fortune. That means," I said, moving closer still, poking his chest for emphasis, "I am mistress of myself and answer to no one.

Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.

Most people are incapable of understanding a woman like you," he said simply. "You defy comprehension." "That might be the nicest thing you have ever said to me.

am the woman who knows twenty ways to kill you and all of them with pain," I told her with an answering smile. "Now, take your carpetbag and your decaying mother and leave. If you come here again, I will not be answerable for my actions.

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

English and Americans joining together in a spirit of 'screw you' to their respective governments," she says with a grin.

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

Question authority... Then ignore it!

Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

Don't ever let the Man get you.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt

Admit you're jealous, Emma." "Never, " she said defiantly. "Just your nipples then. They're pouting.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

No hay nada más bello que un hombre cuando avanza. El soldado que sale de las filas y declara que él es voluntario. El torero que sale del burladero, despide a sus peones y despliega su capa... Todo se resquebraja en el corazón de los otros hombres cuando uno de ellos avanza dos pasos, se separa del grupo y forja, así, en derredor suyo, la infranqueable barrera del respeto

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel