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The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art... -- Robert Burns
But in action, one defies one's character. -- Daniel Bell
One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels. -- Mark McKinnon
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. -- Robert Taft
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. -- Dave Eggers
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. -- Wally Lamb
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. -- B. R. Ambedkar
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. -- Jeremy Rifkin
People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway. -- Lorraine Toussaint
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. -- Anthony Minghella
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. -- Walter Lippmann
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. -- James Wolcott
I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention. -- Alice Lowe
It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. -- Carolyn McCarthy
I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style. -- Chris Benz
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about. -- Barack Obama
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. -- Charles Stanley
Truth defies simplicity. -- John Green
Love supreme defies all sophistry. -- George Eliot
God exists, though He defies reason. -- Kedar Joshi
The power we call God defies description. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind is a science that defies definitions. -- Robert Burns
Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously. -- Susan Wittig Albert
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. -- Alfred Lunt
The gross evil of our time defies all labels. -- Edward Abbey
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation. -- Ashok K. Banker
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. -- Sharon Salzberg
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies -- Kate Chopin
Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies. -- Henry Kirke White
Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities. -- Nicky Gumbel
The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination. -- Paul Tagliabue
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. -- Robert Graves
In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. -- Austin Osman Spare
Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop. -- Jonathan Raban
Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics. -- Nelson Mandela
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. -- D. A. Carson
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. -- Joseph Addison
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. -- Glenn Gould
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. -- Ruth Benedict
The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned. -- Ludwig von Mises
Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. -- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. -- Jim Trelease
While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law. -- Paul Ryan
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities. -- Marcia Whicker
To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension. -- Michael Card
Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. -- Jane Austen
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. -- David Gemmell
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. -- Nadine Gordimer
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power. -- Pierre Trudeau
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation. -- Charles Eisenstein
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality. -- Hugh Hefner
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith. -- Glen Duncan
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. -- Wayne LaPierre
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. -- Walter Cronkite
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense. -- Marshall Goldsmith
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal. -- Banksy
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. -- Jennifer Beals
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience. -- Bernard Iddings Bell
The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect. -- Zeena Schreck
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom. -- Paul A. Lombardo
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. -- Christos Yannaras
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause. -- Margaret Atwood
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands. -- Agnes Repplier
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it. -- Arthur Erickson
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. -- Vince Aletti

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