Defy Circumstances Quotes

#1. Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Susan Griffin

#2. A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

Galen

#3. I am the woman who,when the priest asks,"Is there any reason why this man and woman cannot be joined in holy matrimony?", would clear her throat or stand up to supposedly straighten her dress, thus making the groom and bride nervous for a minute.

Zukiswa Wanner

#4. Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances

Su Williams

#5. Megeara wants to find it. (Arik)
And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't have. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Susanna Clarke

#7. You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Michael Pollan

#8. I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.

David Papineau

#9. When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

Robert Venturi

#10. My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.

Gary Gulman

#11. Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don't want to be called "narrow." But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.

Billy Graham

#12. Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas A Kempis