You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.