Top 280 Strict Quotes

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don’t practice anymore or anything.

I’d had a strict religious education.

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

During the Olympics they’re really strict about what you’re allowed to wear. You get a lot of clothes, but everything is pre-ordered. We had a fitting over the summer. You’re not allowed to wear your own clothes. No logos, nothing. You get fined if you wear something you’re not supposed to wear.

I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I’ll indulge… but then the next day or two I’ll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way!

I’ve realized that I am a strict mom. I don’t want to think that nothing wrong can happen with me.

While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn’t lack values. Reading, I didn’t see me externally, but I felt me – my humanity.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

In Britain, we have strict spending limits for elections. It’s what has kept Britain from following the path of American politics, where elections are the sport of billionaires and corporate interests.

Most of the times, I am on a strict diet for my characters, but once in a while, I love indulging in a bucket full of ice cream.

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.

‘State’ can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb – it’s kind of why I chose that title. It’s not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

If you follow a strict diet for a few months, flaunting six packs abs is no big deal.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn’t enough going on in town.

I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn’t be allowed to sell contaminated meat.

I follow an extremely strict diet counting my calorie intake, keeping in mind a very balanced ratio of proteins, carbs, and fats.

WWE, time-wise, is so strict.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

In some ways I’m quite strict – in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.

My parents are strict, but the most important thing they have taught me is to be humble and kind and to always treat others as I would like to be treated myself.

I follow a strict routine and healthy diet to stay fit.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Not strict, no – but I’ve always been very conscious about just being healthy and taking care of myself.

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam’s central virtue – the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.

I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.

My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn’t watch TV. And he didn’t want any music playing that wasn’t gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn’t even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.

Islamic State practise a brand of Islamic law so strict that apparently Raqqa only has two Irish Pubs.

The BBC has a strict policy of having Clare Balding present everything.

When John, my husband, was alive, he had a strict timetable. We would get up at 7:30 every morning and go out to breakfast, and I’d have a little nap in the afternoon if I had a show to do at night.

Session work makes you more strict. You can’t hit notes all over the place. You’ve got to make each one really count.

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.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes – I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.

I am pretty strict with my diet because I have some stomach health problems.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best friends.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

My character of Ammaji in ‘Solhah Singaarr’ is that of strict matriarch who adheres to her values.

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

There’s so many strict ideas and rules, whether it’s from religion or it’s just generations and generations.

My parents had an inter-reli’gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par’ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

I came from a very strict background.

Swing is extreme coordination. It’s a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It’s about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic.

Karan Malhotra is an amazing director, but he’s strict.

Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic – strict Catholics – from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.

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 grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.

I’m pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

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

My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals – I try to pass that on to my own children.

My mother’s from Thailand, and they’re very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.

I don’t want children cursing. I’m very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I’m pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn’t try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

The bluegrass community… can be very strict. I didn’t know if I’d be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly… I felt really welcome.

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren’t supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.