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Quotes about Fluidity

The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but...each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.
— Edith Wharton
Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.
— James Carse
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
— Anonymous
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hunger and hunt for identity is a driving force of the modern world. But the nature of the self in an age of simulacra, pseudonyms, avatars, gender/racial fluidity, "the wisdom of crowds," and online friends makes having an identity a massive maze of conquest and confusion.
— Leonard Sweet
He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?
— Oscar Wilde
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
— Lao Tzu
The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness
— Winston Churchill
I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.
— Nicole Kidman
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
— Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee