Strictly Quotes

388 quotes by 340 authors

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its… — John Berger
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and… — Johannes Brahms
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date… — John Henrik Clarke
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to… — Eric Alterman
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. — Martin Heidegger
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary. — Bernard of Clairvaux
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too… — Brother Lawrence
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh… — Naomi Wolf
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. — Robin Tunney
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can… — Joshua Reynolds
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call… — Swami Satchidananda
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal. — John Dewey
If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But… — Jason Kidd
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by… — Ayn Rand
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand

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