Top 100 Strait Quotes
#2. Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
Chen Shui-bian
#3. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.
Josiah P. Mendum
#4. We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tsai Ing-wen
#5. How narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!6 are words of our Lord. 8. The narrow gate
San Juan De La Cruz
#6. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#7. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
#8. The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent.
Grant McLachlan
#10. I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.
Chen Shui-bian
#11. PHI1.23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Anonymous
#12. We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
#13. [On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#14. The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
Emma Goldman
#15. Pair of Stephens Island wrens, which were found only on a small, isolated island in New Zealand's Cook Strait. All were killed by a lighthouse keeper's cat.
Bill Bryson
#16. Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Aldous Huxley
#18. Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.
John Dewey
#19. Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.
Jake Owen
#20. I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.
George Strait
#21. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#22. When I was 3, my mom sent in a video of me singing George Strait to 'America's Funniest Home Videos.'
Austin Mahone
#23. As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.
Jim Costa
#24. At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton
#25. I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker
#26. I have promised on many occasions that I will build a consistent, predictable and sustainable cross-strait relationship.
Tsai Ing-wen
#27. I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.
Grant Show
#28. I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
Blake Shelton
#29. We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
Chen Shui-bian
#30. (Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)
Barbara W. Tuchman
#32. Thus her reply with accent sweet renewd. If this be our condition, thus to dwell In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe, Suttle or violent, we not endu'd Single with like defence, wherever met, How are we happie, still in fear of harm?
John Milton
#33. For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.
Walter Benjamin
#34. Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.
Robert D. Hales
#36. What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.
Richard P. Feynman
#37. The next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.
James Patterson
#38. George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.
Dierks Bentley
#39. What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute ... what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
Meg Cabot
#40. If you'd have told me two weeks ago that one day I'd be part of a not-so-merry band of Necros seeking to exterminate a couple of other magic-born gangs, I'd have given you directions to the strait-jacket factory.
David Estes
#41. Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.
Tsai Ing-wen
#42. The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.
Laurence Bergreen
#43. I will, based on the existing ROC constitutional system, based on democratic principles, on the basis of the largest public opinion, promote cross-strait policy.
Tsai Ing-wen
#44. Enter ye in at the astrait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#45. I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.
Christian Kane
#46. America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Isabel Wilkerson
#47. Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
P. J. O'Rourke
#48. Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve.
Xi Jinping
#49. The first group started along the strait and narrow path, but they did not take hold of the iron rod that would keep them on the path, and they got lost in the mists of darkness
Mary N. Cook
#51. We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
Lee Ann Womack
#52. As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.
Luke Bryan
#53. Love transcends all barriers. Age, Gender, Caste et al are the diktats of society to thwart love, promote strait jacketed family life . . ."
"If love could transcend all barriers why not that of gender as well?
Jayant Swamy
#54. I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.
George Strait
#55. Pulling a Houdini
Relationships are magic;
we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jackets
while locked in a steamer trunk underwater.
Beryl Dov
#56. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander
#57. When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
Taylor Swift
#58. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
Edmund Burke
#59. Love is meant to be sipped, rather than chugged, like a glass of wine you drink strait from the bottle.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#60. From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
Tim Cope
#61. Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.
Sone No Yoshitada
#62. Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
Christopher Buckley
#64. Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.
Warren Mundine
#65. You hear diffrent things in all them way back storys but it dont make no diffrents, Mostly they aint strait storys any how. What they are is diffrent ways of telling what happent.
Russell Hoban
#66. We attach great importance to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. But if our diplomatic relations is subject to China's goodwill, we will lose the autonomy of our diplomacy.
Tsai Ing-wen
#67. Get that strait jacket that Heidenreich had and put it on Lita!
Jerry Lawler
#68. ...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.
Gayla Drummond
#69. The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.
John C. Stennis
#70. There may come other days, when the many will crowd the narrow way; but, at this time, to be popular one must be broad - broad in doctrine, in morals, and in spirituals. But those on the strait road shall go straight to glory, and those on the broad road are all abroad.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#71. For the good [person] to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and
narrow path compared to which his [or her] previous rectitude was flowery license.
Parker J. Palmer
#72. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
#73. Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.
Elizabeth I
#74. Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
Nick Lampson
#75. We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.
Chen Shui-bian
#76. If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.
Steve Hanke
#77. There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#78. The Christian is confronted by two ways only, and if we are not on the strait and narrow way, we are on the wide and broad way.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#79. Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone
#80. A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
William Kirby
#81. Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
#82. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
Brad Paisley
#83. The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
Charlie Brooker
#84. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
#85. I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.
Steven Strait
#86. I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
Steven Strait
#87. As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.
George Strait
#88. I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
George Strait
#89. I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.
George Strait
#90. I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
George Strait
#91. You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
George Strait
#92. I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
George Strait
#93. You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
George Strait
#94. I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
George Strait
#95. I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.
George Strait
#96. I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.
George Strait
#98. It's been a long hard ride. See you on the other side
George Strait
#99. Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
George Strait
#100. I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.
George Strait
