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I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

- Dana Reeve

I hope before too long to be sharing news of my good health and recovery, ... Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge. As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage, and hope in the face of life`s adversities.

- Dana Reeve

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

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

- Camille Paglia

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

- Kenneth Clark

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

- G.K. Chesterton

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

The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

- Antun Domic