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Defies Quote of the Day

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Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There is no person in this room whose basic rights
are not involved in any successful defiance
to the carrying out of court orders.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie