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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

We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion. — Joseph Befumo

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ... — Gary Rohrmayer

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

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Laozi

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

If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive. — Liezi

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

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. — Deepak Chopra

Softening what is rigid in our hearts ... — Pema Chodron

Sir!" Alban came to rigid attention as his feet smacked the floor and saluted. "Centurion Alban reporting to the garrison commander, sir!" "I — Janette Oke

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

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. — Laozi

[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long. — Evelyn Waugh

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

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction. — Chris Milk

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

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 the true picture. — Dan Butler

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. — Lao-Tzu

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 souls
prisons 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

What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn't give. He stays rigid. Doesn't even try to listen, just lashes out. — Harper Lee

There is no one specific method that everyone must use. There are no rules and rigid requirements. It is a way of life and a belief system. — Leila Haynes

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

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. — Annie Dillard

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

He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts. — Ken Liu

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

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

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. — Sri Chinmoy

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

of all genres Fantasy is the most rigid and structurally conventional. — Robert McKee

What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail. — Laozi

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

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience — Matt Prior

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

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches. — Rainn Wilson

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above. — Laozi

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

Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows. — Jacqueline Carey