Quotes About Strictness

Fundamentalists don't know how to make exceptions.

Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

programas tan estrictos, ocio incluido, y su vida laboral se verá sometida a tales obligaciones horarias, que el oasis de los estudios se dedica cuidadosamente a la vaguedad, a lo incierto, incluso a una suntuosa nada.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.

Les idéaux ont de curieuses qualités, entre autres celle de se transformer brusquement en absurdité quand on s'essaie de s'y conformer strictement.

She typically erred on the side of severity.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.

Paolo Giovio, an Italian chronicler of the age of Suleiman, summarized his opinion of the Turkish army as follows: 'Their discipline is far more just and strict than that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. There are three reasons for their superiority over us in battle: they immediately obey their commanders; they never worry about the possibility of losing their lives; and

Templet refers me to a 1992 study by the MIT political scientist Stephen Meyer, who rated the fifty states according to the strictness of their environmental protection. Meyer then matched regulatory strictness to economic growth over a twenty-year period and found that the tougher the regulation, the more jobs were available in the economy.

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

For example, from 1968 to 1992 (with the exception of the Carter presidency), the voters selected a fairly conservative president and a fairly liberal Congress, creating what might be seen as a Strict Father executive and a Nurturant Mother Congress, thus reproducing a classic family model in the government, with strictness at the top and caring right below. Thus

Koliko ?e biti potrebno revolucija, koliko ratova da bismo se vratili onoj izuzetno reakcionarnoj istini da je 'strogost' prvi uslov svake hijerarhije, i da je stega ustvari kalup oblika.

It is so nice to go to church," said Lizzie. Since her widowhood had commenced, she had compromised matters with the world. One Sunday she would go to church, and the next she would have a headache and a French novel and stay in bed. But she was prepared for stricter conduct during at least the first months of her newly-married life.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 'YOU ARE SO SEVERE

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My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.

Before, I was a little bit skeptical about women coaching, because I don't know if maybe they are different, and not every woman can be strict to take the best out of you. I was worried about this, but so far I see that some women can be much stronger than men, actually.