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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.
What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.
When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.
Certainly more dangerous
A hard pain it Munro's spine as it lurched into an awkward curve, arching his back off the surface where he lay. Muscles contracted, jerking and releasing, jerking and releasing. The calm voices grew insistent and frenzied, but in a controlled, orchestrated way.
Bending beats breaking.
Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.
hard is just soft that has given in to pressure
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.
Stiffenex! Holy Crap!
The tension in here is thicker than one of Ronald McDonald's shakes.
WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
fierce tonight. Insistent.
Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.
The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.
He was tenser than Jesse Jackson on Father's Day.
softness overcomes hardness.
Yup, definitely lumpy.
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Less, but better.-- Dieter Rams
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Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here.
a tree with more fruits bends more.
I believe in looseness.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
Straight and fast.
For a woman like Shiela, a soft hand would render her bold and controlling and a firm one would make her bitter and resentful.
The closer she hip sways to me, the taller and tenser I stand, until I'm so rigid my muscles ache.
Leave her out of this"
"Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
Stretch your limits once a while, lest you lose your elasticity
When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
weaker moments, he
The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.
Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.
Happy women get softer and rounder.
Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
It would probably be softer, less muscular, like sexual yoga. It'd at least be novel.
If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.
This is how looseLoose-- Gary Keller
We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
So firm, yet so soft, her body was a contradiction in terms."
~Zane's thoughts...
A hard head will make a soft behind.
His leg might be weaker, but at least it no longer mattered when one half of a pair of socks went AWOL in the dryer.
Kickboxing tightens you up.
Half as big but twice as mad.
Tenderness relieves strength that encumbers.
The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.
You understand ... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
This is a subtle insight: the flexible overcomes the strong and unyielding.
Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.
Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.
My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
We should come up with another name for you," he says casually. "Something tougher than 'Stiff'. Like 'Blade' or 'Killer' or something.
It is funnier to bend things than to break them.
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Does this feel warmer or colder?
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
Regular stretching makes your movements more sensuous and fluid.
I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.
Better to dangle from strings than to be bound tight by them,
You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and
sleep-stiffened bones
and much more interesting.
The harder they fall, the harder they become.
Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
Life - with or without softener- is hard
To be soft is to be powerful
Lucy, has he not rather the air of an incipient John Bull? He used to be slender as an eel, and now I fancy in him a sort of heavy dragoon bent - a beef-eater tendency. Graham, take notice! If you grow fat I disown you.
learned men are lighter, but weightier
The grip of vice is tighter than a prison lock.
And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands.
As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.
Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.
If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
It's cooler to be strong.
The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be
There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.
Calm as still water. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine.
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
There is no animal lazier than a cat.