The power we call God defies description.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the…

— Glen Duncan

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

— Austin Osman Spare

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

— Alfred Lunt

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels.

— Mark McKinnon

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

— Anonymous

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there,…

— Alice Lowe

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

— Sharon Salzberg

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

— Jim Trelease

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible…

— Agnes Repplier

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

— Robert Burns

Feminism was for women, and men never had an equivalent movement or discourse in its wake, so of course the sons of men who…

— Julie Klausner