Top 26 Defies Logic Quotes
#1. It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
Jeremy Rifkin
#2. It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.
Cory Booker
#3. Once I read a study about prisoners with a life sentence. The ones without the possibility of parole were happier than those who might get out. Defies logic, but then, not really. Sometimes it's the hope that kills you.
Julie Buxbaum
#4. Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
Jim Trelease
#5. The things you see in Army barracks sometimes defies logic. After a while, you give up trying to rationalize and understand such things ... you just accept them as your new reality.
Scott Burkett
#6. It's almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn't true?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#7. China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.
Zhang Xin
#8. Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.
Maya Banks
#9. Irish rock star Bono has said, Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
Shane Claiborne
#10. I tell you, Becker," Henry said, "if you make me eat mutton one more night this week, I will have someone shot."
"He doesn't really have people shot," Alma reassured Mr. Pike, under her breath.
"I had figured that," her guest whispered back, "or else I would be dead already.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.
Steve Erickson
#13. What if you suddenly saw a two-ton great white shark barreling through the air toward your face? Such a sight defies all logic. "That's fake," you mumble. Your brain shorts out. Your legs won't move. Without this book, the best you can hope for is to be killed in a dry pair of underwear.
Andrew Shaffer
#14. When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together. If you paint over a building there is no more magic to that building. But if it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it - it's so organic.
David Lynch
#15. The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach
#16. I'm trying to be a better person and I'm pretty sure that even when I die, I won't be done with that.
Sara Benincasa
#17. Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
Casey Stengel
#18. Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder.
Tanner Walling
#19. Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
Moshe Dayan
#21. Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
Charles Eisenstein
#24. One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
Elizabeth Thornton
#26. The Lord called me to plant a church.
Bobby Rush