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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. -- Virginia Woolf
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity. -- Deepak Chopra
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. -- Robert Burns
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame -- Virginia Woolf
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. -- Bill Gates
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. -- Hans Bender
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. -- Hugh Laurie
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. -- Sargent Shriver
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. -- John Boyd Orr
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us. -- Joseph Prince
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. -- Walter Lippmann
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. -- F. Sionil Jose
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there. -- Ann Rule
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. -- Nhat Hanh
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free. -- Taylor Swift
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
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way. -- Roy Lichtenstein
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. -- Christopher Alexander
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations. -- Sharon Salzberg
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong. -- Matisyahu
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. -- Pope Gregory VII
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I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. -- Moby
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. -- Susan Orlean
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 where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are. -- Louise L. Hay
To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster. -- Tom Douglas
Proper names are rigid designators. -- Saul Kripke
The rigid tree will be felled. -- Laozi
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Softening what is rigid in our hearts... -- Pema Chodron
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living. -- Anselm Kiefer
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society. -- Robert Reich
Play is free movement within a more rigid structure. -- Katie Salen
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature. -- Margaret Mead
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies. -- Laozi
People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. -- Deepak Chopra
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. -- Ella Maillart
The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above. -- Laozi
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. -- Saint Augustine
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. -- Eckhart Tolle
Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction. -- Chris Milk
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. -- Carl Sagan
Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. -- Xun Zi
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. -- Steven Rattner
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. -- Malcolm Bradbury
Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid. -- Deepak Chopra
If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. -- Vince Gilligan
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. -- Steven Rattner
Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. -- Sri Chinmoy
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. -- Roland Joffe
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. -- Bruce Lee
I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. -- Suzanne Collins
The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience -- Matt Prior
Make sure you have an edge. Know what your edge is. And have rigid risk control rules. -- Monroe Trout
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them. -- Edward James Olmos
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them -- Edward James Olmos
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. -- Charles Churchill
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. -- Eileen Brennan
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. -- Rudolf Steiner
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. -- Laozi
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. -- Meryl Streep
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. -- Laozi
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. -- David T. Kearns
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail. -- Laozi
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management. -- Richard Kinder
Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork. -- William Schutz
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say. -- Joan Frank
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. -- Lawana Blackwell
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. -- Herbert Hoover
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. -- Alan Lightman
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them. -- Aspen Baker
The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No. -- Frederick Leboyer
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. -- Ben Kingsley
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze. -- Martha Ostenso
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. -- Noam Chomsky
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. -- Ihara Saikaku
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. -- Jonathan Raban
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. -- Virginia Woolf
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain! -- Archibald MacLeish
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated -- John Dewey
People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans. -- Prince Philip
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
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
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
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
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
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it. -- Esther Dyson
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons. -- Brennan Manning
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
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. -- Thomas Jefferson
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. -- Louis Kronenberger
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct. -- Lisa Randall
Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had. -- Sark
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -- Laozi
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions. -- Kenny Werner
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. -- James Herbert
And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall. -- Edward Albee
People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training. -- Conor McGregor
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. -- Samuel E. Morison
Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind. -- Thom Gunn
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. -- Samuel E. Morison
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. -- Peter Ustinov
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both. -- Robert Ludlum
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. -- Nhat Hanh
I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age. -- Jillian Hervey

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