Pliant Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
— Laozi
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw…
— Bartholomeus Anglicus
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become…
— Horace Mann
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To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
— Khalil Gibran
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is…
— Auguste Rodin
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have…
— Robert Emmet
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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
— Martial
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Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and…
— Amit Ray
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Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations,…
— Odilon Redon
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You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to…
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy…
— John Dryden
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Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a…
— Charles Krauthammer
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A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists.…
— Graydon Carter
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All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Let us, without breaking, empty ourselves of the fruits of wrong sowing and wrong reaping. Yes, let us become the pliant ones. Let us self-empty…
— Pearls Of Wisdom
Who Wrote These Pliant Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Pliant Quotes as follows: