Top 45 Pliable Quotes
#1. She was so pliable. He could do anything with her, arrange her as he pleased, and she would say yes. Not just yes. Oh yes!
Margaret Atwood
#2. 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
#3. The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#4. God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
Gloria Gaynor
#5. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
Bette Davis
#6. Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
Beth Moore
#7. Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
Jane Addams
#8. Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
Billy Sunday
#9. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
#10. To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools upon her was impious and absurd.
Virginia Woolf
#11. Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#12. I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.
Suzanne M. Wolfe
#13. 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
#14. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Anne Bronte
#16. 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 deep impression.
Joshua Reynolds
#17. The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Zi
#18. Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.
Andrew Miller
#20. Many foam rollers are too large and too hard to navigate around bony prominences, joints, or delicate tissue junctions into which the grippy, pliable Roll Model Balls can easily navigate.
Jill Miller
#21. Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. For modern man, survival meant mental change. The stubborn died as martyrs; the fanatic and the philosopher perished in the face of sudden change. To survive now one had to be pliable; one had to adjust to new codes and ideals and morals. The mind had to change.
William Mulvihill
#24. Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.
Robert H. Shaffer
#26. 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
#27. Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
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Kurt Eichenwald
#28. Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Zen Proverb
#29. Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
Warren Buffett
#30. 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
#31. Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#32. How could she explain to Felicity that her anxiety was like a strange, mercurial little pet she was forced to look after? Sometimes it was quiet and pliable; other days it was crazy, running around in circles, yapping in her ear.
Liane Moriarty
#33. Think what great love Christ has showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt and be as pliable as wax before the sun.
Richard Sibbes
#34. Hardin, as he sat at the foot of the table, speculated idly as to just what it was that made physical scientists such poor administrators. It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.
Isaac Asimov
#35. Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Virgil
#36. Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
#37. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Mark Twain
#38. I felt my heart warm up and become pliable in a way that I hadn't felt in far too long, and I knew in that moment that the thaw had happened because I was finally surrendering.
Kimberly Stuart
#39. The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.
Max Horkheimer
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.
Clement Greenberg
#43. I would not bend.
They could not make me Pliable.
My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.
Janice Hardy
#44. 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
#45. 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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