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Quotes About Fluidity

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
~ Margaret Atwood
Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
~ Margaret Atwood
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
~ Margaret Fuller
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~ Margaret Fuller
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
~ Margaret MacMillan
In this manner, language becomes a medium that allows the conscious and unconscious realms to come together in a fluid manner. From this viewpoint, self-stories are effective not so much because they help us make sense of our lives, but because they give us access to the spirited liveliness of language. Indeed, to the extent that our identities are tied to discursive structures, it could be argued that the mobility of language is directly linked to the flexibility of being.
~ Unknown
los conflictos son útiles porque aportan fluidez a un mundo demasiado estático.
~ Unknown
Dado que el ser humano está conectado tanto con el mundo de la materia como con el del espíritu, necesitamos de ambos hemisferios para movernos de una manera fluida.
~ Unknown
Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.
~ Marisa de los Santos
That was liquid football
~ Steve Coogan
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
~ Michael Stipe
I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
~ Greer Garson
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
~ Margaret Fuller
Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise.
~ Unknown
There was a beautiful duality to her energy, both girlish and boyish.
~ Marnie Woodrow
The trouble with life ... is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning; and the same ending.
~ Martin Amis
The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.
~ Martin Van Creveld
My beloved is only water, which is always flowing, and doesn't deceive, which is always flowing, and doesn't change, which is always flowing, and doesn't end.
~ Unknown
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
~ Kahlil Gibran
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.
~ Mary Quant
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee
~ Matt Haig
Their hands were on each other—on Zee with her curated boyish look and Noelle with her carefully feminine look that was slightly tempered by the nearly shaved head and prominent hipbones and the careful comportment, giving her the quality of one of those artist's mannequins. The arms and leges could be rearranged any way you liked, link by link, and this was what sex was too, when power was fluid. You could rearrange the other person, and the could rearrange you.
~ Meg Wolitzer
English, like water, will find its own level. The language itself through usage and natural selection will see that what is survivable will survive.
~ Melvyn Bragg
Falling is one of the ways of moving.
~ Merce Cunningham