Yet Dorothy felt a sort of joyous excitement in defying…

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It…

— Jacques Charles

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to…

— Mark Twain

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

— Khaled Hosseini

A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who…

— David Platt

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying…

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the…

— Danny Denzongpa

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a…

— Spencer Kayden

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well…

— P. D. James

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

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

— Kenneth Clark

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying…

— George C. Wolfe