Suppleness Quotes

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple.

.. It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple.

It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last.

It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas.

Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature.

She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery;

between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

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 whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions.

Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech.

Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

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.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer.

The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

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

Games sometimes require lateral thinking.

They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions.

Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life.

At their death they are withered and dry.

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.

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