Quotes About Rigid

Power was like a magnet, keeping everything rigid and straight and proper. But without the magnet, it all collapsed into disorganized scrap.

I'm a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change

The classic self-problem seen in clinical settings is fusion with the content of verbal self-knowledge—such as "I am depressed" where "depressed" has the quality of a personal identity. This aspect of self—the conceptualized self—can be "positive" or "negative" or both, but its most dominant features are that it is rigid, evaluative, and evocative.

La seguridad de la sociedad predecible proporciona un antídoto al miedo, pero una sociedad demasiado rígida garantiza que tarde o temprano se producirá su propia destrucción.

The conductor was eating a young ladies' cinema nibble with a rigid, humourless expression, as though it was the doorstop or hunk of sausage that would have accorded with his personality.

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

It is quick to over punish and uninterested in rewarding good behavior. What would we say about an individual who had these characteristics? Mean? Cruel? Heartless? Mindless? Hypocritical? Stupid?

The child who hates the parent becomes rigid—unable to let in love. He is so filled with shame that he feels that he cannot take in any further shame. He protects himself by making sure he is always "right." Such a person often becomes controlling, shaming, and/or abusive.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

In fact, the Upholder commitment to meeting expectations can sometimes make Upholders seem…cold. There's a relentless quality to Upholders. They're going to do what must be done even, sometimes, if that means inconveniencing other people or being out of step.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life." Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Senator from New York, 1977–2001, Ambassador to India and the United Nations. Section 36, Lot 2261, Arlington National Cemetery.

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Women cannot enjoy a tolerable position in society where it is considered of the utmost importance that they should not infringe a very rigid moral code.

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

Beliefs are rigid thoughts. Beliefs are thoughts that get repeated enough to take on a kind of internal structure. No belief is the truth; it is only a belief.

A sub-division's predictable patterns, rigid lines, and ordered structure might feel calming. Normally, they feel segregating and stifling, but for once, I'm scared of this infinite disorder and I'm afraid I might get lost in this place where anything is possible.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

WWE, time-wise, is so strict.

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.