Quotes of: Rigidity Keyword

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Gary Rohrmayer

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script....

Gus Van Sant

Police sergeant: He just sits in there, rigid-like. Switchboard operator Gertie: If he catches you at that keyhole, *you'll* be rigid-like.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has...

Rollo May

Proper names are rigid designators.

Saul Kripke

Departing from Freud’s exclusively verbal analysis, Reich studied the body as well as the mind, and he concluded after years of clinical observation and social work that signs of disturbed behavior could be detected in a patient’s musculature, th...

Thy Neighbor's Wife

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Ben Kingsley

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Ella Maillart

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment ...

The Voice of the Body

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Virginia Woolf

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Xun Zi

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

Manolo Blahnik

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

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

Eileen Brennan

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Sargent Shriver

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

Malcolm Bradbury