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American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
— David T. Kearns
But time," added Shaya, "is not that rigid. In dreams, worlds meet, and time means little.
— Travis King
Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
— Alexandra Robbins
Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.
— Katie Salen
The moment his hand closed around his rigid staff, her own breeding parts went soft and quivering.
— Tessa Dare
You boys ain't got it so bad," he said to his rigid squadmates. "You oughta see how we treat the generals, if you think you's bad off.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
— Edward James Olmos
many people criticize Meaningful Use and HIPAA for being too much and too rigid, others criticize the ONC for being too lax in certain areas. The
— Robert Wachter
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
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Softening what is rigid in our hearts ...
— Pema Chodron
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
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The rigid tree will be felled.
— Laozi
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
— Margaret Mead
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
— Ihara Saikaku
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
— Rudolf Steiner
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
I started with a large rigid sample container (or "plastic box" to people who don't work at NASA).
— Andy Weir
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
— Ella Maillart
It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality.
— Jane Roberts
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
The closer she hip sways to me, the taller and tenser I stand, until I'm so rigid my muscles ache.
— Poppet
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
— Charles Churchill
Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak. — David W. Earle
She held herself rigid in his grasp, but he
— Nora Roberts
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
— Roland Joffe
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.
— Richard Schmid
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
The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
— Frederick Leboyer
I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
— Meryl Streep
the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!
— Candice Dow
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
#Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs.
— Anthony Blake
Proper names are rigid designators.
— Saul Kripke
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
— Aspen Baker
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
— Robin Cousins
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.
— Joan Frank
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.
— Eileen Brennan
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
— Jonathan Raban
I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.
— Suzanne Collins
He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker.
— Vonnie Davis
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
— Sargent Shriver
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
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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 the pound.
— Mohamed El-Erian
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
Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
— Alan Lightman
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
Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
You bore ne rigid.
— Daniel Campbell
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
A rigid old tree like me--it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.
— Emery Lord
a rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.
— Gary Shapiro
It's only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it's totality, that we realize that love is everywhere
— Julian Pencilliah
People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.
— Eknath Easwaran
But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
— Virginia Woolf
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
— Hugh Laurie
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
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
— Jeanine Basinger
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
— Abhijit Naskar
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
— Richard Kinder
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
— Richard Henry Horne
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
— Ben Kingsley
People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.
— Charles R. Swindoll
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.
— Laozi
They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?
— Chaim Potok
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
— Lawana Blackwell
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
Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.
— Georg Buchner
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
