Quotes About Elasticity

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.

The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic; people don't eat more just because food is cheap. Even if I go out of business this land will keep producing corn.

two over-lapping circles, with a certain strong riveted centre of common ground, but both with separate arcs jutting out in the world. A balanced tension, adaptable to circumstances, in which there is an elasticity of pull, tension, yet firm unity . . . . I do not believe . . . that artistic creativity can best be indulged in masterful singleness rather than in marital cooperation. I think that a workable union should heighten the potentialities in both individuals.

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

When you mix wheat flour and water together, the proteins in the flour combine to form a gluten network. This structure is what gives bread dough the strength and elasticity to capture all the bubbles and burbles produced by yeast in order to grow fluffy, chewy, and light when baked.

The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Se ve qué elásticos se vuelven nuestro rígidos prejuicios una vez que viene a plegarlos el amor.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

ideas are so elastic in a human brain, that they have no constant measure which may be called their actual bulk. Any important idea may be compressed to a molecule by an unwonted crowding of others; and any small idea will expand to whatever length and breadth of vacuum the mind may be able to make over to it.

I shrugged into my favorite sweatshirt--you know the kind--where the cuffs are worn and torn and all signs of elasticity have long since disappeared. Whether I wanted to admit

That's one thing I need to work on, my flexibility. I'm not mobile enough, am I.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.

Es importante señalar que el tan elástico argumento de la naturaleza puede estirarse en cualquier sentido y que el hombre lo emplea para defender las causas más contradictorias y los mayores desatinos... cuando le conviene.

I am an actor, living generally on air, but I have always elastic hopes for the future; they may be stretched indefinitely, such hopes, without bursting

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

that strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one's life with, new potentials.