"Be aware that rigidity imprisons."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Rigidity Quotes

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”
“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”

Source : Robin Hobb (2003). “Mad Ship”, p.81, Spectra
“It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"”
“But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.80
“Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.”
“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013
“...to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.”

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