Top 100 Quotes About Defy
#1. Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
Red Ruffing
#2. We did not lack modesty - on the contrary - but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
Georges Bataille
#3. Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
Fidel Castro
#4. I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.
Brian Boitano
#5. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong naming from the ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
John Milton
#6. To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.
David James Duncan
#7. It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
Herodotus
#8. Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.
Joyce Johnson
#9. There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
Elizabeth Inchbald
#10. 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
#11. Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
Mark Buchanan
#12. Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
#13. I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?
Kelly Moran
#14. I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.
Jamie Dornan
#15. A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
Robert Cormier
#16. Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.
Nancy Pelosi
#17. The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it.
John Christie
#18. Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
A.E. Samaan
#19. I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
Rosie O'Donnell
#20. Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime
Jo Nesbo
#21. Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
Aching, shaking, crazy, cold;
But still continue as thou art,
Ancient person of my heart.
John Wilmot
#22. In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.
David Sedaris
#23. 1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Anonymous
#24. I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some small but consequential way, defy the wicked logic of hate and war, that we, together, would stand as a rebuke to the grotesque idea that our problem was without a solution.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#25. Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.
Samuel Adams
#26. The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.
Kevin Ashton
#28. The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ...
Mick Rock
#29. Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.
Stefan Molyneux
#31. Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
Anne Clark
#32. All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can't defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill ... and from that, freedom grows.
Bobby Sands
#33. Horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.
Peter James
#34. But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
Patricia Clarkson
#35. What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns - as well as her own family.
Malala Yousafzai
#37. Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
Carl Honore
#38. To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.
Elaine Dundy
#39. Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life.
Bryant McGill
#40. No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
Jose Rizal
#41. It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'
Ted Cruz
#44. I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?
David Chang
#45. When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Robert Venturi
#46. There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with my life intact, but just barely, and I won't be returning anytime soon. My loyalty - and my heart - belongs to another queen now.
Julie Kagawa
#47. It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.
But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
Rin Chupeco
#48. Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.
Jorge Luis Borges
#49. I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more ...
James Frey
#50. Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
#51. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.
Ron Rash
#52. I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them ... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
Lynn Shelton
#54. It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Josh Garrels
#55. The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, 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 the rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#56. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
Isaac Newton
#57. The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
Potter Stewart
#58. It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#59. The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. I defy anyone to think of the name Dean Martin and not smile.
Now, that's amore.
Deana Martin
#61. Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Robert Black
#62. I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.
Vin Diesel
#63. Lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy
Hilary Duff
#64. Let your heart defy your logic.
Gaby
#65. Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#66. I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.
Jim Butcher
#67. Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.
David Limbaugh
#68. Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
Steven Seagal
#69. Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
Lucy Grealy
#70. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.
Stephen Kinzer
#72. Lots of people are lost. Very few of them will defy their ego and ask for directions
Dean Cavanagh
#73. The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.
Arthur Herman
#74. It was nice meeting you, Lily Bloom. I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours." I
Colleen Hoover
#75. We are not saved by a compromise, by mercy defeating justice, or law suspending its operations; no, we defy the eagle's eye to detect a flaw in the groundwork of our confidence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Shirin Ebadi
#77. Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
Ludwig Von Mises
#78. We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.
Alan Weisman
#79. It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
Caroline Myss
#80. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
Jim Butcher
#81. We have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#82. Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.
Steven Furtick
#83. The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
Doug Aitken
#84. David,you're my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don't care what the world says. Let's defy them all, my darling.
- Maddy
Hailey Abbott
#85. Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.
Michio Kaku
#86. He's already proven he'll defy Heaven to keep her. If Hell wants a piece of him too, then bring it on.
Abbi Glines
#87. If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.
Jo Coudert
#88. America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.
David Jeremiah
#89. Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
Alexander Lowen
#90. If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.
Steve Pavlina
#91. I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
Jody Watley
#92. I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.
Marsha Blackburn
#93. Your words like wings gravity they defy.
My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.
We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.
So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.
Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more.
Group 1 Crew
#94. This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.
Rick Santorum
#95. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
Chris Hedges
#97. Bellissima, I'd stop time for you. I'd give you the moon and the stars; I'd learn to defy gravity. There's nothing I wouldn't do, nobody I wouldn't kill, if you asked me to. If you needed me to
J.M. Darhower
#98. You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
Oscar Isaac
#99. They're all about forty, I'd guess, but they could pass for thirty in that way that handsome gay men can seemingly defy the basic rules of nature.
Matthew Norman
#100. For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.
Arthur W. Pink
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