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Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. -- Cathy Guisewite
Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly. -- Anne Clark
You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd! -- Eric Thomas
Resist. Unlearn. Defy. -- Jeff Hardy
Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. -- Guy Kawasaki
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime -- Jo Nesbo
I defy gravity. -- Marilyn Monroe
The student will try to defy the master. Always. -- Maggie Q
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. -- William Cobbett
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. -- William Shakespeare
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. -- J. Paul Getty
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. -- Amelia Barr
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. -- Spike Jonze
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. -- Paul Hawken
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. -- Martin Short
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' -- Salman Rushdie
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear. -- Martha Beck
I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.' -- Larry David
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. -- Steven Seagal
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. -- John Shimkus
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse. -- Carl Honore
I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it. -- Marc Anthony
Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage. -- Anthea Turner
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. -- Criss Angel
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. -- Shirin Ebadi
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! -- James Connolly
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. -- Clara Barton
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. -- Russell Means
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description. -- Amy Chua
Feed sparingly and defy the physician. -- James Howell
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
They defy gravity, as good books should. -- David Levithan
Feed by measure, and defy the physician. -- John Heywood
Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense. -- Michio Kaku
May your dreams defy the laws of gravity. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We'll do what life always does defy expectations. -- Robert Charles Wilson
The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. -- Douglas Adams
Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. -- Red Ruffing
Try as you may, you can never defy love. -- R. Lee Ermey
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. -- Norman Cousins
I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days. -- Denis Norden
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination. -- Fidel Castro
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live. -- Uesugi Kenshin
Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management. -- Evan Esar
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to. -- Mark Buchanan
To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave. -- Les Claypool
There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. -- Anne Frank
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. -- Robert Kuttner
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. -- J. Paul Getty
The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents. -- Mike DeWine
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space. -- Mark Batterson
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. -- Dan Simmons
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell -- Emile M. Cioran
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. -- Friedrich Schiller
The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education. -- Robert A. Cook
Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic. -- Steven Furtick
I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine. -- Jeri Ryan
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. -- John Lamb Lash
I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law -- John Pinette
A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad. -- Robert Cormier
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. -- Robert Venturi
Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination -- Ilyas Kassam
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that. -- Yoko Ono
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. -- Lady Jane Grey
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. -- Philip Freneau
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. -- Madame Roland
I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted. -- Jill Scott
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. -- Samuel Alexander
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. -- Isobelle Carmody
May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory -- Mizuo Shinonome
I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that! -- Simon Pegg
Dream large and make yaour dreams defy the laws of gravity. Soar high and show your inner strength -- Lee Pryke
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. -- Herman Melville
You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win! -- Michael Grant
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. -- Rick Moody
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them. -- Harold S. Kushner
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them -- Paul Hawken
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. -- Heinrich Heine
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. -- Dalai Lama
Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life. -- Bryant McGill
How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation. -- John Updike
In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. -- Pete Townshend
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. -- Anthony Doerr
I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell. -- Ann Coulter
The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me . . . I always knew that some day I should defy it. -- John Christie
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. -- William Shakespeare
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing. -- David Schuller
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. -- Tod Papageorge
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. -- Ludwig von Mises
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. -- Brian Aldiss
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. -- David Levithan
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her. -- Samuel Adams
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made. -- Stephen Kinzer
Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification. -- Tom Hayes
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds. -- Patricia Clarkson
Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord! -- Jack W. Hayford
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day. -- Owain Yeoman
It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature. -- Rin Chupeco
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. -- Jonathan Lethem
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. -- Paul Erdos
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace. -- Herodotus
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. -- Matt Taibbi
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. -- Pierre Laval
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death. -- Dean Koontz
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. -- Charles Dickens
I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me. -- Susan Hayward

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