Defying Quotes

Defying Quote of the day

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

The key to every man is his thought.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Life is a death-defying experience.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.