Top 72 Quotes About Rebelling
#1. Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
Bethenny Frankel
#2. Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
William J. Clinton
#3. Actually ... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.
Nina Dobrev
#4. I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
Erica Jong
#5. It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
Edie Sedgwick
#6. The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Bertha Von Suttner
#7. Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
Carlos Santana
#8. I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
Lois Wyse
#10. The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#11. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.
Hermann Hesse
#13. People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.
Taylor Swift
#14. Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.
Jennifer Capriati
#15. Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.
Pat Robertson
#16. They can be remarkably helpful, the dregs of society. And they love rebelling against authority.
Amy Ewing
#17. Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
Chuck D
#18. Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.
D'arcy Wretzky
#19. Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
Kangana Ranaut
#20. Every law that God has given has been for man's benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.
Billy Graham
#21. If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.
Ann Coulter
#22. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
Dan Stevens
#24. We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
#27. I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
Natalie Maines
#28. Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.
Rick Perlstein
#29. Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.
Alice McDermott
#30. I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say and still be heard in an atmosphere of prescribed truths.
Terry Tempest Williams
#31. The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population
the intelligent ones or the fools?
Henrik Ibsen
#32. People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
Imelda May
#33. The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.
Albert Camus
#34. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.
Philip Yancey
#36. - She studies mathematics at the Sorbonne.
...
- Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
- Yes, but I did it in the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebells with mathematics?
Khaled Hosseini
#37. I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.
David Foster Wallace
#38. Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#39. Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
Eva Zeisel
#40. Dostoevsky, like Goethe's Prometheus, creates not voiceless slaves (as does Zeus), but free people, capable of standing alongside their creator, capable of not agreeing with him and even of rebelling against him. A
Mikhail Bakhtin
#41. I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.
Greta Scacchi
#43. Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Assia Djebar
#45. Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.
Susan Harris
#46. During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
Yvon Chouinard
#47. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?
Khaled Hosseini
#48. Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
#49. And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
Lawrence Durrell
#50. When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
Isabel Allende
#51. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#52. I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.
Isabel Lucas
#53. Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?
Andrew Loog Oldham
#54. My characters were ... rebelling against something ... My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting.
John Scalzi
#55. Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
Criss Jami
#56. If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
John Van De Kamp
#57. Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
Steve Jobs
#58. I'm sick of everyone thinking I'm Miss Goody Two-shoes, with my perfect grades, and days of the week panties. You know what? I have my Wednesdays on today - it's Saturday - and that's a pretty sad way of rebelling, huh?
Kendall Ryan
#59. I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
Brian Bosworth
#60. Instead of rebelling against the idea of authority, you honor your own inner authority, along with others' wisdom that resonates with you.
Lisa Marie Selow
#61. Unfortunately, I somehow equated rebelling with turning into a giant asshole.
Moxie Mezcal
#62. We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
Andrew Cohen
#63. The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.
Sufjan Stevens
#64. For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.
Albert Einstein
#65. A person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.
Janette Oke
#66. I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
Mandy Moore
#67. It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Albert Einstein
#68. I before E except after C. Weird?
By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.
I think all writers are weird.
Day Parker
#69. If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
#70. I didn't have time to be anyone's muse ... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Leonora Carrington
#71. Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the "why," the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.
Tim Kimmel
#72. Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
Plato
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