Pliant Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. — Martial
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: