home will be run on strict principles, there’ll be no…

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— Simon R. Green

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the…

— Charles Kingsley

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners… The one thing you've…

— Emma Thompson

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.

— Albert Camus

“My heart would obey me, I was certain. I simply needed to be strict with it.”

— Julianne Donaldson

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever…

— Aristophanes

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much…

— Jesse McCartney

I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always…

— Evangeline Lilly

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…

— T. S. Eliot

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to…

— Kate Zambreno

My mom could be pretty strict.

— Gaby Hoffmann

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to…

— Albert Pike

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

— Ed Koch

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

— Swami Vivekananda