Defies Quotes
94 quotes by 91 authors
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies…
— B R Ambedkar
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
— Alfred Lunt
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of…
— Strom Thurmond
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central…
— Thomas Naylor
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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Truth defies simplicity.
— John Green
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When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place…
— Esther Hicks
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We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We…
— Joe McNally
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Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
— Charles Eisenstein
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I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or…
— Michael Robotham
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But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies…
— Anthony Minghella
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The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components…
— James W. Pennebaker
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I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots…
— William Langewiesche
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It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be…
— Oswald Spengler
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