Quotes About Defying

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

Kath woke the next morning in a state of dazed wonder. It is a sensation I have experienced myself, a frank amazement when my cynicism is confounded. When, defying all precedent, the thing I most desire actually appears.

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.

Life is full of hazards, selection also occurs in life, Geralt. Misfortune, sicknesses and wars also select. Defying destiny may be just as hazardous as succumbing to it.

For true Magick means to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set—I quote, as closely as memory serves, Thomas Henry Huxley , when he explains that when he lifts his water-jug—or his elbow—he does not defy the Law of Gravitation. On the contrary, he uses that Law; its equations form part of the system by which he lifts the jug without spilling the water.

'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change but 'till I try I'll never know. Too long I've been afraid of losing love, I guess I've lost. Well, if that's love it comes at much too high a cost. I'd sooner buy defying gravity.

Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Far more entertaining than a high-wire or trapeze circus act is watching someone engage in a life-after-death-defying spiritual rebellion, while pretending we thoroughly condemn it.

I think he was just doing his best, getting along by going along with my mother, whose piety and evangelical fever had preoccupied her family since the last century. She knew no other world - God the Tyrant and supplicant humanity crawling on its belly to be forgiven for sins they never knew they'd committed. 'It's no sense defying the LORD,' she told me. 'He's got all the coons up one tree.

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

aim is to encourage our daughters to consider the actual hazards of risk taking, not the logistics of defying authority.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

My heart Is a ship in the turbulent ocean defying the raging storm that they call love

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

It was the advent, or more specifically, the empty tomb which is the next great event. Even though prophesied thousands of years in advance, the idea of a suffering Messiah was more than the world was ready for, and it confounded the leaders of that time, both Jewish and Roman, that the "bruising of the heel" was the death of the Messiah. A resurrected Christ, defying death, changed the world forever.