Best Stiffness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Ivor Novello

“Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.”

Mind Language Quality Prejudice Manners Openness Flexibility Gracious Propriety Lucidity Clearness Athenians Stiffness

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.”

Years Important Seems Certain Hate Pleasure I Hate Difficulty Boring Bones Arrogant Getting Old Detachment Equanimity Stiffness

Author:Doris Lessing

“The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.”

Wells Use Black Water White Building Materials Winter Decay Centre Turkeys Convenient Oaks Carving Great Service Moisture Stiffness

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.”

Mind Prejudice Submission Firmness Obstinacy Adherence Stiffness

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.”

Source: Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln

“The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain.”

“I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.”

Baby Stiffness

Author:Peter O'Toole

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

Made Literature Easy Break Substance Misfortunes Lilies Supple Stiffness

Book:The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”

Writing Order Dark Like You Hair Shapes Corners Sculpture Twists Potatoes Statues Onions Braids Stiffness

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.”

Giving Political Freedom Principles Practice Democracy Objections Democracies Have Voting And Democracy Stiffness

Author:Meg Greenfield

“A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”

“Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.”

Weakness Excess Benevolence Rectitude Stiffness

Author:Date Masamune

“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.”

Should Mind Body Practice Limits Findings Yoga Supple Stiffness

Author:Geeta Iyengar

“Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.”

People Ifs Dream Interest Stupidity Tales Insanity Boredom Glorious Suspects Bores Justified Incoherence Recitals Stiffness

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.”

People Life Hard Depression Lips Ordinary People Sobbing Depressive People With Depression Stiff Upper Lip Stiffness

Author:Judith Guest

“Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.”

Moments Feelings Reality Understanding Pay Special Awareness Movement Cold Method Arise Heat Tension Muscles Present Moment Formulas Limbs Unfolding Vipassana Stiffness

Author:Amit Ray

“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.”

Different Literature Trouble Connections Joints Discouraging Discouragement Germs Arthritis Stiffness

Book:Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.”

Ifs Writing Fear Simple Letters Scared Looming Stiffness

Author:Gustav Klimt