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Quotes About Defiance

In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.
~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death, was admirable.
~ Jeff Guinn
You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean
~ Jeff Mariotte
Hey!" he shouted. "This is my fucking Lake of Death. I have complete and utter exclusive rights to sailing this lake. Get the fuck off my lake!
~ Jeff Noon
Oh, no, you are not going all boa constrictor on me!" he told it,
~ Jeff Strand
Mandy gave him the finger. "You can have the rest of the booze, if you want," Stanley offered. "Go to hell." "Yes, ma'am.
~ Jeff Strand
The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's defiance in that, too.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's a defiance in that, too.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Die? Then so be it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrade?
~ Elaine Brown
Ben poco del male che si può dire dell'uomo e dell'umanità io non l'ho detto. E tuttavia l'orgoglio che provo per essa é ancora così grande che solo una cosa io odio veramente: il suo nemico, la morte.
~ Elias Canetti
What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?
~ Elie Wiesel
Musíme se vzbouÃ…â"¢it proti boh?m a Ã…â"¢íkat: Chcete mi odepÃ…â"¢ít Å¡tÄ›stí? Tak dobÃ…â"¢e, ukousnu si ho poÃ…â"¢ádné sousto! To je tváÃ…â"¢í v tváÃ…â"¢ utrpení jediná platná odpov??.
~ Elie Wiesel
see you here, lad; old Kaiser Bill couldn't frighten
~ Elizabeth Elgin
glancing defiantly from one hostile face to another, Kit found a
~ Elizabeth George Speare
For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you don't have a clear passion and someone blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Live your life as you wish, my peach, but don't let it bitch up the bloody show.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Those girls are on the road to trouble, I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk - and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Ye know as well as I that I lost whatever heart I once had long ago," Mick replied without emotion, a simple statement of fact. "If the babe lives, or if she dies, it makes no difference to me. I'll still eat sweetmeats on the morrow and taste the sugar on me tongue, still f*ck women and feel the pleasure in me bollocks. And, Charlie—mark me well, now—I'll still kill ye and laugh in yer ugly face as I do it.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
She couldn't very well get up and leave him without causing a scene, but she dearly wanted to. "Well, then, in the interests of fairness, perhaps you ought to know, Your Grace, that I have no intention of yielding the field to you." Beside her he inclined his head a fraction of an inch. "Then en garde, Miss Greaves.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt