Quotes About Defying Authority

#1. Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.
- Temeraire

Naomi Novik

#2. We are the choices we have made.

Meryl Streep

#3. When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

Leigh Steinberg

#4. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

#5. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others.

Julian Of Norwich

#8. And when Mrs. Lincoln and others spoke harshly of the southern people, Lincoln replied: "Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under

Dale Carnegie

#9. ... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#10. Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

John Darnielle

#11. Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

#12. I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life ...

Charles Bukowski

#13. Franz's father gave him a lesson. "Always do the right thing, even if no one sees it.

Adam Makos

#14. Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

Liev Schreiber

#15. Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

Cris Mazza

#16. Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

Richard Bangs

#17. The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Carson McCullers

#18. No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

J. Maarten Troost