Top 1200 Strict Rules Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

The interesting thing is I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and I had a very, very strict upbringing.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan [for 2011].

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.

The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.

Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I'm always strict with my conditioning.

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

I watch my diet and I eat right, but I am not on a strict diet.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.

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

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

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.

Indian coaches are strict on the field, but off the field, they take very good care of you.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

We have a strict radio protocol and structure how our decisions are made. This is how we've won so many races.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

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

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 am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering dropped off delicious food at my trailer.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

My mother was very strict, and though I was reserved, I did give in to certain demands of my age, like sneaking out of the house to hit Dublin.

My parents are pretty strict 'education first - fun later' kind of parents.

Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

You would be surprised at how many letters I get criticising me for straying outside the strict limitations of horticulture or even for expressing what is clearly an opinion.