Stiffening Quotes

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. (Edward Abbey)
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. View quote
E. M. Forster
The United States needs a man at the helm who knows some psychology, who would know that you can't try to dictate to a people from abroad without stiffening their resistance. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion. View quote
Victor Hugo
The point I wish to make is this President William McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia Rowan took the letter did not ask, Where is he at By the Eternal there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies do the thingCarry a message to Garcia. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
There was a stiffening to the jaw. When caught off-guard, professors can act just like people. View quote
Isaac Asimov