Top 100 Quotes About Defy
#1. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
#2. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.
Edward Abbey
#3. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.
Roger Bannister
#4. Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To
Arthur W. Pink
#6. We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?
Lizbeth Dusseau
#7. I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.
Jeri Ryan
#8. Those who survive are those who do not defy the gravity of others. And those who desire even a moment of freedom, find themselves hurled into space, doomed to crash with some unknown force. I no longer desire that freedom. I move, just move. Without meaning.
Mahesh Dattani
#9. He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters and then rolled it in Cayenne pepper. This he put into a large glass which he filled up with champagne. The excellences of this drink defy description.
Evelyn Waugh
#10. I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll miss my best friend or your child, who was every inch a son to me.
Fiona McIntosh
#11. Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods ... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.
J. Allen Hynek
#12. Maybe, she is right. Maybe I have taken gratitude as an attraction. If that was it then why couldn't I remove her face from my eyes? I am different and she too! I cannot defy my own rules. "Sharya's" are much more dangerous than "Shera's".
Kimaya Mathew
#13. How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
Dean Koontz
#14. May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory
Mizuo Shinonome
#16. It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.
Mona Charen
#17. In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.
Dominique De Villepin
#18. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Charles Dickens
#19. Castiza: "False! I defy you both!
I have endured you with an ear of fire;
Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!
Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."
Gratiana: "Where?"
Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then.
Thomas Middleton
#20. You're kind of blind, you know?" Puck whispered, smiling to soften his words. "I wouldn't defy Oberon for just anyone. But, for you ... " He leaned forward, touching his forehead to mine. "I'd come back from the dead for you.
Julie Kagawa
#21. Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
Gerald R. Ford
#22. I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
Rick Moody
#23. If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
Simon Pegg
#24. Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
George Gissing
#25. Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
Lady Jane Grey
#26. There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
Hari Kunzru
#27. In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.
Herman Melville
#28. Those who were defiant, like Marie, would defy until they dropped dead. The maudlin would weep and the deal makers would bargain and the jokers would joke, but every last one of them would die.
Alex London
#29. The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please ... I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.
Eve Ensler
#30. Dream large and make yaour dreams defy the laws of gravity. Soar high and show your inner strength
Lee Pryke
#31. He took my hands, holding them between us. "Please, just do this for me. Don't ask questions." he turned my hand over and kissed my palms. "Don't ask to be hurt. Don't fight. Just love me." His voice was soft enough to turn stone to putty, and all desire to defy him left me.
C.D. Reiss
#32. This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
N.K. Jemisin
#33. Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.
Robert A. Cook
#34. All good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
Dan Simmons
#35. 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
#36. If you believe in something because of miracles,
then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.
Toba Beta
#38. The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#39. To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
Charlotte Wood
#40. If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.
Mikhail Bakunin
#41. Try as you may, you can never defy love.
Emery Lee
#42. We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's." To which Tyndale passionately responded: "I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!
William Tyndale
#43. iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table - two cubic feet of it weighs as much as a Buick, which makes iridium one of the world's best paperweights, able to defy all known office fans.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#44. At the moment of orgasm you grow wings, defy gravity and your soul slips quietly across the universe like a shooting star.
Chloe Thurlow
#45. Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.
Criss Angel
#46. It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.
Ken Gillespie
#47. By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
William Shakespeare
#48. People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.
Tim Fargo
#49. When doubt speaks, despise him.
When fear speaks, defy him.
When failure speaks, deride him.
When confusion speaks, disregard him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.
L.M. Montgomery
#51. I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it
Charlotte Bronte
#52. I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
Spike Jonze
#53. And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature.
Jules Verne
#54. In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.
Pete Townshend
#55. Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.
Guy Kawasaki
#56. Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
Mark Hoppus
#57. They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atoms
Clever microorganisms defy gods
But defy nothing
Phantom of truth
Beneath reality's facade
A.R. LaBaere
#58. Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#59. His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
David Levithan
#60. It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem
#61. There are things that defy logic. Things that speak to the instinctual fear cloaked by our conscious minds.
Mary Lindsey
#62. Only two things in man's consciousness defy discussion: faith and one's marriage.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#63. Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
Sean Connery
#64. The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
#66. Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.
Gregor Collins
#67. Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.
Truth Devour
#68. Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?
Richelle Mead
#69. But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page
#70. I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me.
Susan Hayward
#71. You defy questions;
You defy other godhood.
I walk dry on your kingdom's border,
Exiled to no good.
Sylvia Plath
#72. A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau
#74. It is impossible to deny a woman in a feeding mood. It is as if they look right through you, to that small, weak part that has been there since you were a baby and that doesn't know how to defy authority.
Judith Merkle Riley
#76. I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
Matt Taibbi
#77. The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
#79. After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.
David Boudia
#80. No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me.
Hunter S. Thompson
#81. The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
Roland Barthes
#82. 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
#83. Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie
#84. I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.
Marc Anthony
#85. Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out.
Elizabeth Melville
#86. But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#87. Time was to sin and to enjoy, time was to scoff at God and at the warnings of His holy church, time was to defy His majesty, to disobey His commands, to hoodwink one's fellow men, to commit sin after sin and to hide one's corruption from the sight of men.
James Joyce
#88. Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.
Dan Simmons
#89. Despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.
Edward Hirsch
#90. Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.
Travis Bradberry
#91. The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
Martha Beck
#92. There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty
#93. I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
Tamsin Egerton
#94. Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.
Robert Herjavec
#95. It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.
Lucretius
#97. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
Jerry Bridges
#98. I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help.
Dee Williams
#99. The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken
#100. Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics.
Daniel H. Pink
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