Strict Quotes

427 quotes by 386 authors

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when… — William E. Gladstone
My religious upbringing was comically strict â€” even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to… — Katy Perry
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several… — John von Neumann
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for… — Philip Pullman
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the… — Harry Houdini
It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal. — Dwight L. Moody
Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded. — Chloe Grace Moretz
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its… — John F. Kennedy
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,… — Fred Edwords
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
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 stood… — Evangeline Lilly
The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving. — Sheldon Glueck
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this… — Tim McGraw
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was… — Wyclef Jean
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;… — Charles Darwin
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing
In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot… — Avril Lavigne
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to… — William Penn
Veganism isnâ€™t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the… — Howard Lyman

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