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Quotes About Defiance

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!
~ Robert Jordan
Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself.
~ Robert Jordan
Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.
~ Robert Jordan
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
~ Robert Jordan
Yes, that's the way of your kind, isn't it?" The Ogier's voice changed, as if he were quoting something. "Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
~ Robert Jordan
But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier.
~ Robert Jordan
And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.
~ Robert Jordan
Aemon had sent out messengers. Aid was promised if they could hold for but three days at the Tarendrelle. Hold for three days against odds that should overwhelm them in the first hour. Yet somehow, through bloody assault and desperate defense, they held through an hour, and the second hour, and the third. For three days they fought, and though the land became a butcher's yard, no crossing of the Tarendrelle did they yield.
~ Robert Jordan
But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.
~ Robert Jordan
Hasta que la luz se desvanezca, hasta que el agua se agote, hacia la Sombra con las mandíbulas comprimidas, gritando con desafío con la última exhalación, para escupir en el ojo del Cegador de la vista en el día final
~ Robert Jordan
They made Rand's bile rise. Use what you must use, or let the Shadow cover the land.
~ Robert Jordan
When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose
~ Robert Jordan
All right, then. If she wants to be like that, there's nothing I can do.
~ Robert Jordan
I am al'Lan Mandragoran," Lan bellowed. "Lord of the Seven Towers, Defender of the Wall of First Fires, Bearer of the Sword of the Thousand Lakes! I was once named Aan'allein, but I reject that title, for I am alone no more. Fear me, Shadow! Fear me and know. I have returned for what is mine. I may be a king without a land. But I am still a king!
~ Robert Jordan
Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead." Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead. Yes.
~ Robert Jordan
Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
~ Robert Jordan
No," he said, softly, yet more firmly. More dangerous. "I will not see another person chained by your foul leashes." "Foul? They are the only way to deal with those who can channel!" "We have survived without them for centuries." "And you have—" "This is not a point I will concede," al'Thor said.
~ Robert Jordan
His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.
~ Robert Keller
There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity […] The human frame just ain't built that way.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.
~ Robert Sharenow
C'est insensé Vous avez tout perdu. - Je ne suis pas de votre avis. Permettez-moi de vous faire remarquer que je suis toujours en vie - Je vous l'accorde. Pour le moment.
~ Robert Sheckley
Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
~ Robert Silverberg
If you know you're right, you're not afraid of fighting back.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Ash? Get bent and die.
~ L.J. Smith