Quotes About Defy

A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.

Eleanor Roosevelt and others said polio changed Roosevelt, that it made him more compassionate. That may be so. But the first impact of the disease was to call forth elements of his nature that no one had seen before - elements that even he may not have known he possessed. His decision to defy polio was a critical moment in his life - perhaps the critical moment.

I didn't come up as a DJ, so I don't play by DJ rules.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

If we manage to cheat death, we'll give death another sporting chance.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

You know, I don't at all hesitate to be a bit utopian about all this because I think hope is itself an act, a very big leap, which in a sense defies the grim facts always about us and opens up new ways of thinking about things.

I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.

And that's the charge for all of us: to defy the forgettable flatness of everyday work and life by creating a few precious moments.

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Commitment is about a group of intelligent, driven individuals buying in to a decision precisely when they don't naturally agree. In other words, it's the ability to defy a lack of consensus.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

this would be no easy victory. "In truth, Alexander, you are so demanding these days that a saint would defy you, and do so simply for the pleasure of thwarting your schemes. You

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature.

To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

While theories are a necessary aspect of planning, their true danger comes when we forget how often individuals, businesses, and nations defy the prototypes we assign them.

Know your limitations and then defy them.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.