Top 364 Defy Quotes & Sayings

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Defy the limitations people put on you.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Resist. Unlearn. Defy.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

I defy gravity.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.

In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

I defy anyone in the world to trade with me.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.