A Quote by Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

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Walter Scott
Scottish - Novelist
August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Confucius

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Mercedes Lackey

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Charles Churchill

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

H. Rider Haggard

The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.

Sarah Lafleur

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Robert Jordan

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

Pope Paul VI

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.

Darren Hardy

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

James Salter

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Oscar Wilde

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