Strict Quotes

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

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 it quite early.

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.