Defying Quotes

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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
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
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
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
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
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
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christâ€™s witnesses all… — Bill Hybels
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
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard
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
I keep defying the odds, you know. — Bubba Watson
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
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
A high view of Godâ€™s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe… — David Platt
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
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
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
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
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
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

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