Quotes About Defiance

And then, being Rose Hathaway, I said something I really shouldn't have to the boy. "You should go punch him and find out.

Why did you come here?" he asked at last. "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 291). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Brave words." He stood up and began pacing once more. "I almost believe you." "They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know. On the street." "Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here." Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 295). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

He began dragging me again. "I'm seconds away from just tossing you over my shoulder," he warned.

There's nothing beautiful here. Only death." "That's only true if you let them make it true,

Take your preaching elsewhere , boy . (hardcover) p294

Umbrellas made vain attempts to withhold the deluge;

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

made a decision. She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy. You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up. Even so, she was determined to have a go. Her father, after what had

Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!

You always have a choice, she spat. You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting.

It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, "there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four.

Drop dead-but first get permit

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

All right, all right, have it your own way! I can't prove I'm right—so I must be wrong. Men!

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.

He went on to Jubal, " 'Thou art God.' It's not a message of cheer and hope, Jubal. It's a defiance—and an unafraid unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.

nos morituri vos spernimus (we who are about to die, scorn you)