Strict Quotes

427 Strict quotes by 373 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. — John Frederick Boyes
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
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
I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life? — Joan Crawford
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict. — Sofia Vergara
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. — Edward Burnett Tylor
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
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
The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit. — Theodore Stevens
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
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda
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
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne

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