Suppleness Quotes

#1. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#2. It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

Virginia Woolf

#3. The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's problems and challenges.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#4. Although the Singularity has many faces, its most important implication is this: our technology will match and then vastly exceed the refinement and suppleness of what we regard as the best of human traits.

Ray Kurzweil

#5. A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be ... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

Sarah Bernhardt

#6. Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

Laozi

#8. The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

Joseph Pilates

#10. One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

Neal Stephenson

#11. I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Sam Rockwell

#12. If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

Chris Hayes

#13. Respect for everyone he met. The preference of service over power. The rejection of violence. Israel - its Law and worship - as the primal source of meaning.

James Carroll

#14. I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

Zac Goldsmith

#15. The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Peter Drucker

#16. I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

Eva Green

#17. Here is a beautiful dream: A never-ending journey! The holy purpose of science is to realise this dream for all living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

Amit Ray

#19. You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

C.S. Lewis

#20. Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. When Kami jumped over a style, he looked like he's never seen one before.
"I have never seen one before," Jared said.

Sarah Rees Brennan