Toughness And Flexibility Quotes & Sayings

Never blow out someone else's candle to try and make your one shine brighter — Steven Aitchison

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. — Jay E. Adams

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance. — Boomer Esiason

Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide — Jeffrey Eugenides

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope. — Emma Goldman

So, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy. — Alan Watts

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others. — Amit Ray

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all. — Cormac McCarthy

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally. — Wynonna Judd

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate. — Philip Jose Farmer

Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller, and charming everyone but their own mothers. — Robin Hobb

Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you're an alien. For an English woman, it's as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it's as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team. — Angela Kiss

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. — Diana Ross