Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic.””Sure you were,” Jason said. “You’re just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

…and we’ll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the…the rebelliousness out of it.’Peter nodded. ‘It’s easy to take the opposite path from...

So che, rifiutando a mia volta di accettare un compromesso con i fondamentalisti e con i signori della guerra, o di annacquare le mie denunce nei loro confronti, protrò finire con l’essere annoverata anch’io nel...

Do not be a follower. Be a leader. Rebel-Rebel-Rebel.

How do we stay on the narrow path of following God’s will in every sphere of life? How do we maintain sure footing and not fall into the temptation of rebellion on one side, or...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the...

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

I tell you,” said Augustine, “if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the...

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Dad, she’s just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I’ll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and...

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

I am often described to my irritation as a ‘contrarian’ and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up...

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God’s statutes and nothing else.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. “I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell...

What’s wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?””Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

At that moment, Robert saw James Stewart turn to him. A jolt went through him as the steward nodded. Before anyone could begin speaking again, he headed out of the crowd towards Wallace, leaving his...

Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue.”What do you want?” Jason asked.No answer.”Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He’s...

You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Nuestro padre se asomó al antepecho.- ¡Cuando te canses de estar ahí ya cambiarás de idea! – le gritó.- Nunca cambiaré de idea – dijo mi hermano desde la rama.- ¡Ya verás, en cuanto bajes!-...

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses...

Apparently when it’s two people, it’s quirky and funny, but when it’s a person doing the same stuff on her own, it’s rebellious and antisocial.

If we burn you burn with us

A little rebellion is good now and then.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features,Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly.Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,Could never be friendly ourselves.

His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.

The law is that the law will be broken.

I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

First there were the Gamemakers, making me their star and then scrambling to recover from that handful of poisonous berries. Then President Snow, trying to use me to put out the flames of rebellion, only...

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn...

…it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone...

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

I don’t want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so...

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips,...

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim’s name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

From the woods that surrounded the burgh came a mass of men. Some rode, others ran. All carried weapons, mainly axes or spears. A few wore mail shirts and cloaks, but most just leather aketons....

If we can expect another journey tomorrow, we should secure horses,” Ferrin went on. “And if the sun will be shining, perhaps a goat for Aram.””Keep it up,” Aram dared him through clenched teeth.”Is a...

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday...

A Christian who rebels against God’s Word is not a Christian at all

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It’s also why this eternally popular and...

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that i wish it to be always kept alive….I like a little rebellion now and then. It is...

Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.