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Quotes About Defy

I quite like confounding people's expectations.
~ Bill Bailey
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
We'll do what life always does defy expectations.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
the pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.
~ John Foxe
human ingenuity will find a way to defy government rules and regulations, such as customs tariffs, when they fly in the face of self-interest.
~ Arthur Herman
Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
~ Lynn Shelton
I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.
~ Angela Bassett
We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
~ James Murphy
I live to defy y'all's expectations.
~ Sara Ryan
tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World. . .and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn, Buzz hinted, he might have to take it over and run it properly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy
~ Hilary Duff
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell.
~ Emil M. Cioran
They're all about forty, I'd guess, but they could pass for thirty in that way that handsome gay men can seemingly defy the basic rules of nature.
~ Matthew Norman
Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Try as you may, you can never defy love.
~ Emery Lee, The Highest Stakes
Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.
~ Ernest Cline
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
~ Chris Hedges
water was the one element that could in some measure defy all magic; for moving water would tolerate no magic whether for evil or good, but would wash it away as if it had never been made.
~ Susan Cooper
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
~ Justice Potter Stewart
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it's ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
~ Mencius, Mencius
Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite" Foamfollower from (Lord Foul's Bane; 1977)
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.
~ Terry Goodkind
The statue at Alesia, over 20 feet tall, was erected in 1865 at the commission of Napoleon III, and the face appears to be modelled on his own. It is inscribed with Caesar's 'quotation' from Vercingetorix, slightly adapted – 'Gaul united, Forming a single nation, Inspired by a shared spirit, Can defy the world'. In 1870 Napoleon III led France to defeat by Germany.
~ Terry Jones
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
~ Terry Pratchett