Rigid Quotes

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. — Charles Dickens
I believe in a world of opposites and thatâ€™s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. — Meryl Streep
Flow in the living moment. â€” We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and… — Bruce Lee
The moment is freedom. â€” I couldnâ€™t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and… — Bruce Lee
Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of… — Bruce Lee
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them — Edward James Olmos
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our… — Ron Paul
The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility… — Anne Bogart
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description… — Harryette Mullen
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed… — David Hockney
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I… — Jessica Hagedorn
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity… — A. S. Byatt
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin… — Madeleine L'Engle
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic… — Mahatma Gandhi
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid… — Andrei Tarkovsky
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery… — Ken Grimwood

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