Rigid Quotes

290 Rigid quotes by 252 unique authors

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code… — Harper Lee
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is… — Alan Alda
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about… — John F. Kennedy
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration,… — Brigham Young
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed… — Tom Robbins
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to… — Bernhard Schlink
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It… — Che Guevara
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash… — Anais Nin
Luxâ€™s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid tâ€™s and bâ€™s of her motherâ€™s signature and then,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for… — Bertrand Russell
I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid… — Mahatma Gandhi
Whatâ€™s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome… — Steve Aylett
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. — Bruce Lee
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking. — Stephen R. Donaldson
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are… — Malcolm X
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory… — Rollo May
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way… — Paul Brunton

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