Strict Quotes
427 quotes by 386 authors
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,…
— Clement Freud
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But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church…
— Henry Edward Manning
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Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the…
— Anne Michaels
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors,…
— Paul Signac
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close…
— Natalie Massenet
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I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the…
— Gustav Mahler
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of…
— Lou Gramm
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Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To…
— Lester Bangs
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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
— Mary Astell
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the…
— Isaac Barrow
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The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories…
— John Lennox
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and…
— Donald Judd
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To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
— Arturo Sandoval
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
— Chauncey Wright
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The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on…
— Hubert Yockey
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Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence…
— William Henry Ashley
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Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean…
— Tsutomu Ohshima
Who Wrote These Strict Quotes
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