Rigid Quotes
290 quotes by 252 authors
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Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility,…
— Fred Upton
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As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play…
— Fred Ward
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
— Ella Maillart
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I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe…
— Wilhelm Reich
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn…
— Louise Hay
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People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the…
— Eileen Brennan
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Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into…
— Antonio Gramsci
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Proper names are rigid designators.
— Saul Kripke
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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
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate…
— Warren G. Harding
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I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not…
— Susan Downey
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The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a…
— Joshua Reynolds
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If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so…
— Marketa Irglova
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Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
— Robert Reich
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart…
— David Ogilvy
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
— Charles Churchill
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If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or…
— Pema Chodron
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Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
— Rudolf Steiner
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