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Tag Name "Pliable" (20)

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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Anne Bronte
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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.
Brett Hull
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
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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 for future joys which now would never arrive.
Galen Beckett
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
M. Russell Ballard
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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
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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 the upward thrust of life.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Virgil
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xunzi
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That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.
Alfred Doblin
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Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
Beth Moore
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In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. Natural horsemanship is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable.
Buck Brannaman
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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
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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
Gloria Gaynor
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
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Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.
Robert H. Shaffer
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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
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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
Warren Buffett