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Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
— D. A. Carson
Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time.
— Edwin A. Abbott
The soul, secured in her existence, smilesAt the drawn dagger, and defies its point. — Joseph Addison
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...
— Robert Burns
Goodness, Time's rude hand defies,And winter lives when beauty dies. — Henry Kirke White
But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.
— David Levithan
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
— Narendra Modi
Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.
— Maureen Moss
Your love is a plant that defies asphalt.
— Malak El Halabi
Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
— Nadine Gordimer
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.
— Glenn Gould
Murder - the wish to do murder - is something quite different. It - how shall I say? - it defies God.
— Agatha Christie
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Do what you love and own who you are.Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
— Robert Burns
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
— Francoise Mauriac
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul ... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
— Kate Chopin
To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
— Michael Card
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
— Charles Eisenstein
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
— Dave Eggers
Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise. — Toba Beta
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
— Elizabeth Thornton
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
— Austin Osman Spare
Virtue runs before the muse,and defies her skill;
she is rapt and doth refuse
to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He, who beats his wife defies his goddess
— Akinwale Musa Oluseun
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit — David Giannini
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.
— Terry Goodkind
There is a moment when dancing when the body defies gravity. This is the moment to strive for.
— Chloe Thurlow
I am choosing a love that defies boundaries and a life that defies boundaries. That is the power of Celeste.
— Jessica Park
The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation.
— Devorah Kalani
Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
— Alfred Lunt
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
— Robert Taft
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
— Jim Trelease
The gross evil of our time defies all labels.
— Edward Abbey
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
— Ruth Benedict
Love supreme defies all sophistry.
— George Eliot
Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.
— Oliver DeMille
The power we call God defies description.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God exists, though He defies reason.
— Kedar Joshi
A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.
— Thomas Maltman
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels.
— Mark McKinnon
Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.
— Susan Wittig Albert
There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
— David Gemmell
Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.
— Nelson Mandela
But in action, one defies one's character.
— Daniel Bell
It's almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn't true?
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
— Ashok K. Banker