Pliable Quotes

26 Pliable quotes by 26 unique authors

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. — Tia Carrere
You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those… — Brett Hull
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth. — Robert H. Shaffer
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. — Xunzi
I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by… — Unknown Author
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. — Beth Moore
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs. — Don DeLillo
The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable.… — Morgan Wootten
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a… — Joshua Reynolds
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push… — John Shelby Spong
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. — Quentin Crisp
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. — Philip Zimbardo

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