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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. -- James Beattie
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. -- Suzanne Fields
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. -- Abraham Lincoln
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. -- Oscar Niemeyer
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. -- Marguerite Gardiner
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. -- Ken Robinson
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. -- John Paul Jones
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. -- George Bernard Shaw
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. -- Angela Carter
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 Social Europe which we wish. -- Laurent Fabius
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. -- Chris Evert
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law. -- Lysander Spooner
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. -- Jose Serrano
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. -- Iris Murdoch
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 to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. -- Andrew Jackson
The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right. -- Michel Faber
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. -- Maximilien Robespierre
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 believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. -- Huston Smith
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence! -- Deborah Sampson
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. -- Julian Baggini
To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock. -- Margaret Thatcher
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. -- Maximilien Robespierre
The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. -- Misty Copeland
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time. -- Brian Tracy
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. -- Anais Nin
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. -- Maximilien Robespierre
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. -- Tacitus
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. -- Marguerite Gardiner
The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. -- Meryl Streep
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change -- Peter Drucker
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. -- Rudolf Steiner
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. -- Haruki Murakami
To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money. -- Spalding Gray
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. -- Azar Nafisi
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. -- Neil Gaiman
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
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions -- David Hume
I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left. -- Juan Williams
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 to be flexible. -- Douglas Hofstadter
So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved. -- Nancy Anderson
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. -- Winston Churchill
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. -- Haruki Murakami
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs. -- Oliver North
... 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, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn. -- Neal Shusterman
We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation. -- Winston Churchill
I don't really have a problem 'cause I know who these people are, I know that they're scared to death. I know these leftists with scared and they oppose and that they're inflexible. -- Rush Limbaugh
I don't really have a problem 'cause I know who these people are, I know that they're scared to death. I know these leftists with scared and they oppose and that they're inflexible. -- Rush Limbaugh
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. -- Laozi

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