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
“Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will. — Scott Brown Copy Share Image
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Yet Dorothy felt a sort of joyous excitement in defying the storm,” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when… — Grace Draven 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
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
All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled… — Rex Ingamells Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten.… — Nannie Helen Burroughs 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
“Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she… — Charlotte Brontë 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
