Defies Quotes

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

But in action, one defies one's character.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Logic defies why you have to take such a complicated route to get to the abdomen.

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

It defies understanding, from our perspective. One can speculate, one, that the ACLU has been captured by the homosexual-rights movement, and so therefore they are attacking the Boy Scouts and friends of the Boy Scouts as a way of punishing us for having rights that the Supreme Court has affirmed. The other thing that is interesting is that they're attacking our friends. They go after our relationships with the Defense Department, with schools and school boards - and they sue those people, but they don't sue us. They think maybe that's a way of hurting us and hurting our friends for having relationships with us.

It defies logic that a clergyman could so casually dismiss thousands of years of Judeo-Christian law, including the commandment that we are not to kill.

Knowing that you were going to fly to the moon, walk on the moon, defies description.

It defies the nation's history and commonsense. With their filthy hands and drunken heads they are crawling into the sanctuary of the state.

Why is the public becoming an investor in luxury condos and a luxury hotel? That defies logic. We don't need more hotels and more office space in a market that's over-saturated with hotel rooms and office space. For taxpayers to be subsidizing this is foolhardy.

a most shocking and terrible tragedy, initiated by terrorism, and its scale almost defies imagination.

[The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not.] Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

It defies common sense that these soldiers have been denied their right to the reimbursement they are due under the law.

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.

She defies all the norms of network television. Traditionally, your lead character in a drama - especially a woman - isn't riddled with flaws. She's someone you like, someone you look up to. But Meredith? Oh man, she's a mess.

Today's ruling defies logic and common sense.

It defies logic to require blind students to take this course.

Often the stumbling block to change the law which defies common sense is the money to hire a lobbyists. When you have volunteers to do it for you, it helps.

It defies belief that a critical and hard-won body of evidence could be so quickly handed back, making it inaccessible to prosecutors and helping shield the criminals from justice.

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

The commission's decision is thoroughly disappointing and defies all common sense.