Rigid
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
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Rigid Quotations
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward James Olmos
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
Christopher Alexander
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Zi
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
Paul Auster
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
Jessica Hagedorn
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann
Rigid Translations
rigid in Danish is stiv
rigid in Dutch is stram, star, stijf, houterig, stug
rigid in Finnish is kankea
rigid in French is rigide
rigid in German is starre, starr, steif
rigid in Italian is rigido
rigid in Latin is austerus
rigid in Swedish is fast
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