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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
I keep defying the odds, you know. -- Bubba Watson
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. -- Richard Barnfield
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. -- Anthony Kiedis
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. -- Voltaire
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. -- Ted Nugent
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas. -- David Wilkerson
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. -- Quentin Crisp
Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream! -- Evinda Lepins
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' -- Josef Joffe
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
You bend the laws of the universe when you fly," I say. "It's impressive. Defying gravity? Watching sunrises and sunsets from places Mother Nature didn't intend for you to watch them from? You really are superheroes, if you think about it. -- Colleen Hoover
Life is a death-defying experience. -- Edna Buchanan
I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. -- Gillian Jacobs
It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying. -- Dan Harmon
Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will. -- Scott Brown
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. -- Gwendoline Christie
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. -- Miguel de Cervantes
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. -- Kenneth Clark
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. -- Michael Cunningham
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. -- Dave Beard
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. -- Elinor Glyn
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat. -- Eartha Kitt
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. -- Hannah Arendt
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community. -- Jose Maria Aznar
Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him. -- Tom Wells
It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together. -- John Thorne
The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents. -- Hailee Steinfeld
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish. -- Philippe Petit
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage. -- Liya Kebede
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. -- David Stern
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. -- Mara Liasson
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again. -- Christopher Hitchens
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm. -- Edgar Winter
In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me. -- Spencer Kayden
Surprise comes from defying expectations. -- Seth Godin
There are no prizes for defying yourself. -- Stephen Richards
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. -- Kedar Joshi
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. -- Israel Shenker
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. -- Khaled Hosseini
Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal. -- Mira Grant
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure. -- Shepard Fairey
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable, -- Viktor E. Frankl
When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money. -- Leigh Steinberg
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning. -- Richard Bangs
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth. -- Hugh B. Brown
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. -- Alan Rickman
Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles. -- Robert Breault
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id. -- Virginia Postrel
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think? -- P. D. James
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out. -- Michaela Angela Davis
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire. -- George Will
A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. -- Leigh Hunt
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces. -- Jon Stewart
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like. -- Joseph Sobran

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