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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.
Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually muttered.
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.
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!
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.
Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
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.
I like showing people I can do something they wouldn't have pegged me as being able to do. I've always wanted to defy expectations.
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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.
There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.
There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.
Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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.
It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.
I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
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.
I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.
I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts, and laws.
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
