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Quotes About Defiance

Well, you got me there, I could have said. You're right, I broke the rules, I didn't play fair. And you know what? Fuck you.
~ Lawrence Block
When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.
~ Lawrence Block
She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
~ Ai Weiwei
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
~ Giordano Bruno
And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
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, Witch's Canyon
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
~ Horace
Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?
~ A.A. Bell, Hindsight
Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood, " she said. "make me pretty.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know sufferi
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)
~ A.E. van Vogt
Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before—it's nothing!
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.
~ CM Punk
Smile... it irritates those who wish to destroy you.
~ Jeffree Star
It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say "bite me!
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.
~ J.R. Ward
Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.
~ DANIELE BOLELLI
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.
~ Nelly Kaplan