Defying Quotes
67 quotes by 62 authors
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
— Richard Bangs
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For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding.…
— Don Berliner
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The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all…
— Bill Hybels
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Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does…
— Tom Wells
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Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
— Dave Beard
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable,
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I keep defying the odds, you know.
— Bubba Watson
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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little…
— Joseph Sobran
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Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe…
— David Platt
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It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and…
— John Thorne
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Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an…
— Andromeda Romano-Lax
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The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
— Hugh B. Brown
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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change…
— Mark Twain
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How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it…
— Michaela Angela Davis
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it…
— Alan Rickman
Who Wrote These Defying Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 67 Defying Quotes, led by these top contributors: