But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
Patricia Clarkson

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Cathy Guisewite

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Shirin Ebadi

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad Iqbal

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Pierre Laval

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
Denis Norden

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
William Cobbett

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
Martin Short

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
Rick Moody

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Christopher Walken

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
Jody Watley

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.
Jeri Ryan

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
Giraldus Cambrensis

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
Anthea Turner

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
John Shimkus

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.
Mike DeWine