Quotes About Rigidity

Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.

El señor Morrel comprendió que nada podía intentarse; un comisario con faja no es ya un hombre, es la estatua de la ley, fría, sorda, muda.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

My biggest concern in counseling is not that God won't guide us into truth, but that either I or the counselee will get in His way through rigidity, pride, blind spots, defensiveness, and the like.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

A stiffnecked people.

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor--the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars--was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

In a game I'm, like, 'Rubber Man' or something but, off the pitch, I'm the least flexible person you could imagine.

I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

You have square thoughts which resist circles.

Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.

Legile cer întotdeauna s? fie interpretate. Cel care se priponeÈ™te de lege nu vrea s? lase nicio È™ans? compasiunii. Nicio marj? de manevr?. "Legea e lege!

The surest sign that an aristocracy exists is the discovery of barriers against change, curtains of iron or steel or stone or of any substance which excludes the new, the different.

Arrakeen had become an ungenerous place, a contained place, unreasonable and self-righteous in its harsh outlines.

He was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He'd destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern.

Usted es muy severo, dijo el alcalde, pero multiplique esa severidad por mil y seguirá siendo una minucia comparada con la severidad que aplica la administración contra si misma

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.