Strict Quotes · Page 5

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to…

— Donatella Versace

At Ajax, they are strict when it comes to using the ball as a defender.

— Toby Alderweireld

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

— Grenville Kleiser

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all…

— Max Weber

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

— Fisher Ames

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

— Kate O'Mara

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care…

— David Mixner

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the…

— Christine Teigen

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of…

— Arthur Quinn

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that…

— Kara Swisher

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict…

— Charles Ferguson

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging…

— Johan Huizinga

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what…

— Laura Mvula

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

— Elspeth Huxley

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having…

— Amy Chua

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the…

— Anonymous

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented,…

— Lewis Thomas

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love:…

— Mathias Malzieu

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the…

— W. H. Auden

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic…

— Ambrose Bierce

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt…

— Edward Feser

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

— Allen Tate

There are dancers who put themselves on strict diets, but I'm not one of them.

— Michaela DePrince

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

— Danny Boyle

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more…

— Marianne de Pierres

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

— Calvin Johnson

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

— Mia Maestro

“She's not always bad, but she can be so strict. You use her bra once as a sling shot and she holds…

— Ottilie Weber

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

— Alexa Vega

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

— Amelia Barr

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs,…

— Grace Slick

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

— Stephen Mallinder

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a…

— Justin Vernon

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

— Luke Harding

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

— Steve Dildarian

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

— Arturo Sandoval