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Quotes About Defiant

Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
~ Alvaro Enrigue
I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.
~ Tupac Shakur
I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.
~ John F. Kennedy Jr.
Fuck you, says Iron Maiden.
~ Mick Wall
recalcitrant
~ Mick Wall
I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.
~ Steve Jones
I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my character.
~ CM Punk
I am glad to be labeled anti-Semitic.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
Zander stared him down. "I've always been an asshole. Ask anybody.
~ Karina Bliss
joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...
~ Karl Barth
Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.
~ Brian Azzarello
Reviews were scathing—most criticized its too-fast pacing, and overreliance on slapstick and sight gags, both of which had been intentional on Lucas's part. But Lucas brushed off the criticism. "It came out almost exactly or even better than I hoped it would come out," he told reporters defiantly.149 "I like my movies, and I'm always surprised if they do very well or do terribly. But Radioland Murders was inexpensive and we learned quite a bit.
~ Brian Jay Jones
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
~ Scott Caan
I was a troublemaker.
~ Oksana Masters
I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.
~ Grace Potter
At some point, no matter how repressive the regime, the citizenry will come to comprehend the vast power in their hands. The destitute, the Indebted, the beleaguered middle classes; in short, the myriad victims. Control was sleight of hand trickery, and against a hundred thousand defiant citizens, it stood no real chance.
~ Steven Erikson
I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.
~ Stieg Larsson
The collusion between corporations and the state has been so boorishly defiant that it's almost as if the communities standing in the way of these projects are viewed as little more than overburden - that ugliest of words used by the extractive industries to describe the waste earth that must be removed to access tar sands or mineral deposit.
~ Naomi Klein
I'm not your dear girl," Kasia said, with a bite in her tone that silenced him.
~ Naomi Novik
People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't.
~ Viv Albertine
We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.
~ Keith Richards
Play by the rules, and lose to a rule breaker.
~ Gena Showalter
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
~ George Frost Kennan