Strictly Quotes
388 Strictly quotes by 329 unique authors
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That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd…
— Haruki Murakami
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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of…
— John Steinbeck
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People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob…
— Salman Rushdie
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It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he…
— C.S. Lewis
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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
— George Orwell
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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
— Libba Bray
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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
— Douglas Adams
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving…
— Albert Einstein
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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
— C.S. Lewis
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
— Oscar Wilde
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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that…
— Noam Chomsky
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Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force…
— Terry Pratchett
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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.…
— Albert Einstein
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If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically…
— Franz Kafka
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his…
— Abraham Kuyper
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History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
— J. H. Plumb
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Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge.…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul…
— Mark Twain
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It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is…
— William Wilberforce
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and…
— St. Jerome
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We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
— Thomas Merton
Who Wrote These Strictly Quotes
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