Pliability Quotes

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

I can adapt to any situation.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

You can't be rigid in this business [politics].

The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

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

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

We know how to make flexibility when needed.

I stick by my principles, and one of my principles is flexibility.