Rigid Quotes

290 Rigid quotes by 252 unique authors

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by… — F. Sionil Jose
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective… — Noreena Hertz
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard
Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from… — Robert Gottlieb
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to… — Mohamed El-Erian
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky. — Sarah Waters
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did… — Tom Paulin
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of… — Earl Browder
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the… — Christopher Alexander
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as… — Dan Butler
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so… — Julia Sweeney
Almost everyone wears rubber on their feet these days, but there was a time when it was considered cheap. Luxury shoes had leather soles, which… — Diego Della Valle
The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. — Ronald Reagan
Unless the knowledge gained from experience is reconditioned in each new situation, it is a rigid and a dangerous guide. — Michel De Montaigne
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would… — Henry Louis Mencken
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated — John Dewey
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison… — Joseph Collins
Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a… — Tom Robbins
Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there. — Eileen Kennedy-moore

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