38 quotes about rigid follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Lawana Blackwell

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books, ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.

Thomas Cahill

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell

It's a very rigid guideline.

Teresa Moore

Proper names are rigid designators.

Saul Kripke

He was right when he created this party but he did in such a rigid manner provoking opposition.

Raphaelle Bacque

Our capacity management and divestiture efforts, coupled with a rigid financial discipline, are having a favorable impact on our performance and will continue.

John Dillon

Normally, rigid plastics are synthesized by rapid reactions that randomly cross-link polymers.

Adrien Cote

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

Malcolm Bradbury

We will be adding categories for children of that age. The letters will not be as rigid, if you will.

Cynthia Mcnally

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

At 5:20 am (0120 GMT) the divers finished their work making a ... hole in the eighth section of the rigid hull of the submarine.

Igor Dygalo

At the same time we were working on the structure so that it was a rigid piece and it was never touching the hull.

Clay Oliver

We initially started with earthquakes, ... One of the critical points is that the lower floor plus the legs form a rigid structure with the outer shell.

Fritz Gampe

We won't accept the majority of rigid measures the government insists on.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A rigid formula that does not allow local governments to benefit from the full value of their growth is both a practical and political barrier to continued economic prosperity.

Jerry Deschane

Prior to this crisis, Asia was rigid, ... Now it's less centralized ? but human suffering was significant.

Paul Matthews

These rigid percentage caps on stock create all kinds of problems. You're discouraging employer matching, and you're imposing rules on how individuals should invest their money.

James Klein

The industry started out with an authoritarian kind of command-and-control model. And the structure was static and rigid.

Douglas Norby

I can't believe the law is so rigid and inflexible not to take into account the needs of our children. It is a big issue, a hot issue, and this is probably the only district in this country willing to address it.

Rudy Rodriguez

Barilla came out with a new line of rigid pastas. They're supposed to hold the sauce better.

John Chiakulas

It's hard to accuse them of being behind the curve. If anything they're being a bit too rigid. Wage pressure has proved to be modest. The ECB will probably be looking to see slowing in housing credit growth.

Brian Coulton

Back when Lawton Chiles and I led the state, Florida was governed from the center, a place where good ideas trumped rigid ideology.

Terri Schiavo

The large popular normality is that rigid, constrained normality, ... But there's another natural normality. And you come to realize, 'This is who I am. And by gum, I'm not going to let it be a constraint!'

George Takei

The water can only go up because the bottom and sides of the channel are rigid. That bulge, however undetectable, is the fish's footprint.

Adrian Bejan

As a result, the unsupported portion of the column is very rigid and brittle so that earthquake forces concentrate too much on the column, causing it to break.

Mete Sozen

Ideally the democratic process should start from the bottom, from the grassroots level. But with the dictatorial regimes and rigid laws controlling almost all areas of civic life, it is highly impossible to bring democracy in Arab countries in this way. The democratic process in these countries would need a strong push from outside.

Nasser Amin

TPA is given according to a fairly rigid cookbook of timing. It's a high-wire act. Small screw-ups in timing can have important consequences.

David Vorchheimer

As customers are dealing less with rigid [physical] boxes and dealing with more flexible virtual environments, the need to find a better way to count and analyze the utilization of these virtual resources?rather than their physical resources?is important.

Ron Riffe

Just in the first couple of games I did feel I was a little bit rigid.

Tim Henman

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Hans Bender

This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.

Chandra Muzaffar

A system doesn't necessarily mean rigid structure, but it means setting up organization that works for you.

Sue Shipman

That is exactly why this was set up. We want to create a rigid set of standards that can be applied throughout the industry.

Andrew Beveridge

There are rigid rules and limitations to Israel's REIT legislation, but we believe that with time those will be relaxed, like in the US in the 1960s.

Leon Harris

The good side of this is that it's not excessively rigid, so you can have a great variety of people raising important questions. Raising questions is what bioethicists do best.

Daniel Callahan

We learned about it that weekend, he was suspended that Monday and he's remained off the job since then. There are very rigid requirements for certified probation staff as far as any criminal history.

David Reilly

Everyone's under pressure to deliver value and can't be rigid about how they reach consumers. But we need specialist knowledge of the magazines, and they will be losing that a bit.

Rachel Hall