A Quote by Richard Whately

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

Richard Whately

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Richard Whately
English - Writer
February 1, 1787 - October 8, 1863

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

Confucius

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

Walter Scott

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Magha

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

Christopher Paolini

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

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

James Russell Lowell

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Peter Drucker

God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.

Victor Hugo

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

Shelley Fabares

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Edward Young

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Walter Russell

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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