Defying Quotes

67 Defying quotes by 61 unique authors

I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet.… — Gwendoline Christie
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks calledÂ entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when… — Christopher Hitchens
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit… — Jon Stewart
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker
The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time,… — Kadmi Cohen
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still… — Mara Liasson
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the… — Anita Shreve
Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in… — Robert Breault
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. — Kedar Joshi
The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the… — Frank Griswold
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their… — Quentin Crisp
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. — Anthony Kiedis
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. — Ted Nugent
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked… — David Wilkerson
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of… — Paulo Coelho

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