Inflexible Quotes

69 Inflexible quotes by 56 unique authors

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may… — Ayn Rand
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday. — Jorge Luis Borges
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence… — Harold S. Kushner
The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To… — Eugene H. Peterson
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made… — Joseph Conrad
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how… — Douglas Hofstadter
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done,… — Neal Shusterman
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really… — Huston Smith
This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the… — Laurent Fabius
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. — Oscar Niemeyer
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with… — Mark Twain
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country — Joseph Addison
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not… — Andrew Jackson
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. — Maximilien Robespierre
Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience… — Ernest Holmes
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time. — Brian Tracy
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided… — Alexander MacLaren
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. — Rudolf Steiner
It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say.… — Benjamin Hoff
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures… — Blaise Pascal
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. — Abraham Lincoln

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