Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately instead of choosing flexibility President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

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.

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

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

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

All we need really is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

The work of art just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness the rigidity the regularity the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal.