#inflexible

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ↗

— Angela Carter

#appearance #cover #enterprises #even #himself

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#inexorable #inflexible #law #nature #risk

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#always #becomes #demands #every #giving

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #children #common #common sense #deserve

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inflexible #may #must #principles

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. ↗

— James Beattie

#faith #inflexible #invincible

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#attract #created #hard #inflexible #lines