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My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
— Alfred Tennyson
Beads of blood defied gravity, hanging in the air like drops of dew caught in a web.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.
— Vanessa Kerry
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
— Stephen Kinzer
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
— Kiersten White
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.
— Arthur Scargill
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
— Francis Bacon
He defied Heaven to keep her, he defeated evil to save her, but if her soul wants another ... will he be able to let her go?
— Abbi Glines
the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. The
— Leigh Bardugo
Overcrowding and poverty, that "defied description", as
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
— Jesse Ventura
Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
— Kate Harper
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
— Margaret Anderson
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
— Bob Costas
I wasn't ready to leave. Some masochistic shred of my being didn't want to walk away from him yet, even though staying defied logic and common sense.
— Pepper Winters
So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons.
— Bernard Cornwell
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
— William Shakespeare
We have defied the day as it was set out for us.
— David Levithan
Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.
— Danny Silk
Australians have defied global economic gravity.
— Wayne Swan
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
— Honore De Balzac
Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.
— Frank Herbert
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
— L. Neil Smith
You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you
— John Steinbeck
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
