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Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream! — Evinda Lepins

Don't. This is the punishment I deserve for defying my fate. It'll be easier if I let go of the guilt and embrace my ineluctable destiny — Shaine Lake

When a bird breaks out of its shell it is defying its greatest opponent: fear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — P.D. James

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

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

We could return from sand if we had to
form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors. — Addison Moore

I keep defying the odds, you know. — Bubba Watson

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it? — Frank O'Hara

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

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

There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope. — Robert Jordan

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

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

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

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. — Elinor Glyn

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

Books are immortal sons defying their sires. — Plato

Now that's the sort of love Richard had always been looking for, enduring, defying obstacles, reciprocated. — Johanna Lindsey

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

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

Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise. — Toba Beta

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. — Alan Rickman

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

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

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

Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic. — Graeme Simsion

Surprise comes from defying expectations. — Seth Godin

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. — Leigh Steinberg

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

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles. — Robert Breault

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

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

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

Life is a death-defying experience. — Edna Buchanan

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

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

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

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . That would lead to anarchy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

All good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. — Dan Simmons

For, as the myths tell us, it is by defying the gods that human beings have best expressed their humanity. — Salman Rushdie

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

Jody noticed that the kid was focused on the breasts, which were defying gravity, and apparently death itself, by standing there at complete attention — Christopher Moore

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

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. — Gilbert K. Chesterton