Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress,… — Ida Rolf Copy Share Image
The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine,… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance.… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
