Strict Quotes
427 quotes by 373 authors
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A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.
— Alberto Gonzales
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He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost…
— Charles Kingsley
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to…
— Ralph Richardson
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I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without…
— Sergei Shipov
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the…
— Major Taylor
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict…
— Oliver Lodge
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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier…
— Walter Lippmann
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A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.
— Theodore Stevens
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When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules,…
— Sun Tzu
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The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
— Danny Boyle
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
— Michel de Montaigne
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A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
— Michael Haneke
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We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning.…
— Elon Musk
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
— Larry Wall
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I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you…
— Gore Verbinski
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a…
— Albert Pike
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