Rigid

Famous quotes containing the word rigid:

    “It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
    On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
    Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
    Assorted characters of death and blight”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)