Top 115 Defying Quotes & Sayings

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

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.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

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.

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.

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.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

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.

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?

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.

So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity!/ I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/ No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down!/

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

I don't think I'm defying stereotypes on purpose. If it so appears that way, so be it. For me, I've been brought up that way.

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.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The walk of migrant workers towards their home is a march against the stripping of their democratic rights. With their walk, they are defying the system, walking on roads which they are not allowed to tread.

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.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

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.

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.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

I keep defying the odds, you know.

Life is a death-defying experience.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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.

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.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

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.

Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

The Arctic as a lesser-known region of the world was the ideal destination - beautiful, mysterious, lethal, enchanting and, crucially, populated with extraordinary death-defying communities who somehow manage to thrive there.

'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

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.