#fiance

I’d put a banana on my tray, too. That, at least, didn’t remind me of anything trying to kill me. Could you kill someone with a banana? It didn’t seem possible. Maybe a possessed banana. I’d seen possessed pets before, but not possessed fruit. But I’ll bet it’s out there somewhere. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#humor #strange-angels #humor

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them. ↗

— José Rizal

#humor #humor

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. ↗

— Françoise Mauriac

#divinity #god #human-nature #pain #nature

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#defiance #despair #done #god #greatest

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. ↗

— Gerard Way

#defiance #self-assuredness #self

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#revolution #revolution

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#control #defiance #dominance #rebellion #rebellion

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#beyond #comes #confronted #danger #deceit

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#basic #basic rights #carrying #court #defiance