Quotes About Defies

Bush 41 was the only Republican around who knew that anything that consistently defies arithmetic can't work for very long.

Biology is the study of what lives and therefore what dies. It's messy—wonderfully, frustratingly so—and imprecise and defies definitions.

How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That's because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

Commentary by J.-P. Quélin, food critic for Le Monde). [New York and London chefs] are cooking, he says, at a level of originality that defies judgment, defies criticism, defies the grammar of cuisine. (This I think is true. When I took my brother to L'Arpege for his birthday we got fourteen -small- courses ... that made even the best of the old cuisine look like sludge.)

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything? Plenty of time, he said softly. Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic? Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

I always say I'm just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It's revolutionary for a character on television, and it's also extremely creatively liberating as an artist.

But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.