Strict Quotes
427 quotes by 373 authors
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I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel…
— Charlie Watts
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Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
— Noam Chomsky
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A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very…
— Ramakrishna
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
— Zebulon Pike
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
— Albert Camus
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Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her…
— Martha Finley
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The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,…
— Emile Zola
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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would…
— Winston Churchill
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I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against…
— Francois Gautier
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One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I…
— Emil Zatopek
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
— John Frederick Boyes
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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter…
— Edward Feser
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I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
— Joan Crawford
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I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
— Sofia Vergara
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your…
— Larry Holmes
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