Definition of Defying

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Definition of Defying
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Defying Quotations

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

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

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

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

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
David Wilkerson

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
Eartha Kitt

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
Jose Maria Aznar

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

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

Defying Translations

defying in German is trotzend, trotzende, herausfordernd

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