Quotes About Elasticity

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

The older we get, the more we desire to reclaim our body at 25; we'll take our face at 35, the elasticity of our mind at its most powerful, to return ourselves somehow to our most vital moment of rigor and protean creation.

Elastic, hard, and brittle: glass presents properties that do not always seem compatible and yield unpleasant surprises.

He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack—yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away—jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.

Love's elastic. It's not a question of watering down. It adds on. It doesn't take away. So there's no need to worry about that.

El amor es elástico. No te limita.

Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Patience is moral elasticity.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Buck, the heart is a rubber ball. No matter how hard it's crushed, it bounces back.

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city's skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

La realtà a differenza dei sogni, è priva di elasticità.

God, Alex loved me. He truly did. I just hadn't learned that time is elastic: it stretches and gives, far more graciously than it probably should, and then one day, when you least expect it, something simply ruptures, and you sheltered life is done.

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.

to be of greater use, the rules need to be remolded so that they are more precise and accurate, less egocentric, and more elastic . When rules are discovered to be false, self-defeating, or unworkable, they have to be dropped from the repertoire.