Quotes of: Strictly-speaking Keyword

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] te...

Tortured for Christ

Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?” “I beg your pardon, ma’am?” “In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It’s not laid down, is it? It’s not off-limits?” “Not that I’m aware, ma’am.” “Good. Well i...

The Uncommon Reader

I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The washing is not strictly necessary but, again, I have always found it a good way to greet the day. You wash after a period of work, after all, and what e...

Michael Marshall Smith

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love t...

John Milton

don’t tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve. if i speak of these things it’s because i have to— but i am not speaking to you.

Collected

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Crime and Punishment

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Darker Still

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

How to Speak Dragonese

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

Joel Osteen

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Ancillary Justice

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

I Speak of Ghana

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

The Pilgrim's Progress

When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity