Strictly Quotes
388 Strictly quotes by 329 unique authors
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...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly…
— Don DeLillo
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Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking…
— Samuel Beckett
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The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the…
— Terry Pratchett
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They…
— Mark Twain
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If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but…
— Aldous Huxley
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I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
— J D Salinger
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She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
— C.E. Murphy
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The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
— Bertrand Russell
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Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in…
— Sophie Kinsella
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I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
— Marilynne Robinson
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For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER
— Adam Rex
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Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,…
— Gail Carriger
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Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
— Walter Benjamin
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We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life…
— Wendell Berry
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Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.
— Stephenie Meyer
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He's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freaky Pete's office after…
— Cassandra Clare
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have…
— Marcel Proust
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You're strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl.
— Alyson Noel
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I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon. "I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people,…
— Cassandra Clare
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