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Quotes About Defiance

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.
~ Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
~ Mary Frances Berry
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
~ Malala Yousafzai
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
~ Francis Picabia
I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
~ Bryce Harper
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
~ Abel Ferrara
My thing was, if somebody talks about you this and that, you got to go prove them wrong.
~ Charles Oakley
A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?
~ Milos Forman
If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.
~ Richard K. Morgan
I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?" "It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike.
~ Richard Kadrey
I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes.
~ Richard Kadrey
Abandon all hope ye who piss me off.
~ Richard Kadrey
Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots.
~ Richard Kadrey
I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off.
~ Richard Kadrey
I want to say that I'm not doing this because you tried to kill me. I want to be bigger and better than that. But I'm not. I'm doing this because you tried to kill me.
~ Richard Kadrey
Proximity to normalcy is a nice turn of phrase; you ought do a needlepoint, frame it and shove it straight up your ass. Keep it there with the rest of your wisdom.
~ Richard Kadrey
He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, "To freaks everywhere." Vidocq holds up his mug. "May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.
~ Richard Kadrey
Then you better tell whoever is Lucifer, because I'm living in his palace, wearing his clothes, and peeing in his shower.
~ Richard Kadrey
If I'm going to ride this out and stay alive, then I'm king high ballbuster. I took on God and almost did the old man in. A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time.
~ Richard Kadrey
Who are you?" I say. "Sawney Bean." I shake him a couple of times. "Sawney Bean? He died three hundred years ago and a million miles away. Try again, Porky." He laughs and grabs my arms. "I'm Sawney and I'll eat your guts for lunch." "Naming yourself after a dead cannibal might scare some people, but you're just a clown to me. Now tell me again why I shouldn't drop you out a window?
~ Richard Kadrey
Stumbling back, I shout fire hoodoo, but they walk right through that. I can't think straight. I know there are other ways to hurt them, but my brain has flatlined.
~ Richard Kadrey
That's it, fuckers. I've saved your dumb asses more than once. Let me choke you a little as I vanish into the sky.
~ Richard Kadrey
Then don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.
~ Richard Kadrey
don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.
~ Richard Kadrey