“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man,… — Tom Wells Copy Share Image
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force… — Frank Griswold Copy Share Image
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a… — David Stern Copy Share Image
“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Now that's the sort of love Richard had always been looking for, enduring, defying obstacles, reciprocated.” — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that? — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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