Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
I would not bend. They could not make me Pliable. My mind was strong. My mind was mine.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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 big huge guys who just fight.
...Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338
What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved f...
Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet harden...
I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if," Kara swallowed hard, "...if I lose him, I'll join him in death." Vena resisted the urge to stroke the fine mass of dark curls away from the heart-shaped face...
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not...
I want to be softened, not stiff. Pliable, not rigid. I don't want anyone to look at my life and think it is perfect or, worse, that I want them to think it is perfect. Instead, I want anything that is unapproachable or harsh in me to be scrubbed awa...
Cherry: You a doctor? Dr. Dakota Block: Hm. I was earlier tonight. Cherry: I always wanted to be a doctor, instead, I can do this. Useless talent number 66. I'm very pliable. Dr. Dakota Block: You know my girlfriend had a theory, she said that you fi...
Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and ...
