Defies Quotes

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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
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
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt
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
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
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
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
Truth defies simplicity. — John Green
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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