Quotes about Defiance

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.

I spit upon your God!

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell? It is not compulsory for anyone to go there. Those who do, do so by their own choice, and against the will of God, and they can only get into hell by defying and resisting all the work of Providence and grace. It is their own will that takes them there, not God's.