Quotes About Fluidity

She had, it seems, no difficulty in sustaining the different parts, for her sex changed so far more frequently than those who have worn only one set of clothing can conceive; nor can there be any doubt that she reaped a twofold harvest by this device; the pleasure of life were increased and its experiences multiplied.

Tengo raíces, pero floto.

Everything became softly amorphous, as if the china of the plate flowed and the steel of the knife were liquid. Meanwhile the concussion of the waves breaking fell with muffled thuds, like logs falling, on the shore.

Some change at once went through them all, as if this had really happened, and they were all conscious of making a party together...; had their common cause against that fluidity out there... and now the same effect was got by the many candles in the sparely furnished room, and the uncurtained windows, and the bright mask-like look of faces seen by candlelight. Some weight was taken off them; anything might happen…

It is a profound truth that in 'every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place', as Woolf puts it, but for the writer that change is also a profound source of energy.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

But the reflections came clear to me then, come still in quiet moments when past meets present so smoothly the seams disappear and time itself turns fluid. Sometimes I wish time stayed solid, in separable chunks as distinct as the sound of the ticking clock on my mantel. In truth, though, we break all boundaries, hurtling forward through hope and backward on the trail made by memory.

To say I believe time is fluid, and so are the boundaries between human beings, the border separating helper from the one who hurts always blurry.

It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.

Water never stops and says, 'Here I am. This is me.' It is forever in motion and twisting and turning into new forms every moment.

The great religions, the rituals of these religions, are only hints that once there stood on these banks one who flowed like water with the cosmos. That once a true system of awakening existed in some time and place, now there exists only mechanistic imitation, a monument carved out of rock, to this expression of fluidity.

Anglo society moved forward not as a uniform front against Native Americans but more fluidly, as if it were poured into the interstices separating Indian nations and communities.

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension.

the water in this cave is small but we begin to heal and it is better water than the last water no water should bring pain water should not be flat water should not be smooth water should not be empty water should not have a shape there is no shape of water

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

He was the anchor in the water, while you rocked up and down on the waves.

It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.