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Quotes About Defiance

My plan was to be the biggest asshole I could be—and I was)
~ Jennifer Niven
Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.
~ Jennifer Niven
If I want to carry a purse, I'm going to carry it. I'm not going to not carry it just because they don't like it." And in that moment, this scrawny kid with big ears is my hero.
~ Jennifer Niven
If I want to carry a purse, I'm going to carry it. I'm not going to not carry it just because they don't like it.
~ Jennifer Niven
When I pointed out this fallacy in her thought process, however, all she said was, "Just do it," only not the way they say it in Nike ads. She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too.
~ Jenny Carroll
If you can't enjoy having a motherfucking baby with the motherfucking woman you love, fuck you, son. And also. Fuck you.
~ Jenny Colgan
It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never admitted to being in the wrong about anything.
~ Jenny Colgan
It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.
~ Jenny Colgan
struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.
~ Jenny Colgan
You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit
~ Jenny Han
Excuse me, fuck you.
~ Jenny Han
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY... THEY GET EVEN.
~ Jenny Han
You've just gotta keep your head up and act like you don't give a shit.
~ Jenny Han
Sighing heavily, she says, "If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing.
~ Jenny Han
It's about time you did your own thing and stopped just listening to whatever Queen Margot says.
~ Jenny Han
How dare he say I need to grow up? What does he know about anything? As if he's so mature!
~ Jenny Han
The adultery book says to say affirmations of some sort each day, about yourself or your marriage. The wife doesn't like the ones that are suggested so she makes up her own. Nerves of Steel No favors for fuckers
~ Jenny Offill
We used to call her Little, Little come here, we'd say. Little, unhand the cat, but then one day she won't let us, "I am big," she says and her face is stormy.
~ Jenny Offill
Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. If a constable call upon you to serve in the militia, shoot the constable and not the enemy. If the commander of a press-gang trouble you, push him into the sea. If a bailiff, throw him out of the window. If a judge sentence you to be imprisoned or put to death, have a dagger ready, and take a stroke first at the judge.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. "Sand" might be a loose metaphor for "point where I'm almost dead and filled with the kind of regret you have to actively forget in order to continue on as a human being.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
One man against a corrupt system and I knew I could win! And Hindsight would like to point out I wasn't even on the really hard drugs yet. I'd
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?
~ Jerome
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.
~ Jerome Groopman, MD