Strictures Quotes

#1. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

Henry Rollins

#2. Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

James Thurber

#3. .. and I began to think that the strictures of Islam would quickly make me a fancier of the margins of anatomy, thrilling at especially trim ankles, seeking a wink behind a veil, or watching for a response in the shoulders of one of those shrouded forms.

Paul Theroux

#4. movement behind us, each of us had to overcome deeply held values and traditional social strictures. The struggle was personally painful and

Lynn Povich

#5. Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Stephen Young

#6. I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

Huey Long

#8. Onerous moral strictures weed out the uncommitted and guarantee a minimum level of solidarity and trust within the group.

Eduardo Porter

#9. Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.

Patricia Garfield

#10. As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

John McWhorter

#11. Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#12. In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#13. Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed.

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

#14. Set strictures on a person all you like, but the mind remains adulterous.

Tom Holland

#15. It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

Michael Sandel

#17. The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

Jesse Jackson

#18. Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

Robert Jordan

#19. The winner isn't the first one to get there, but the first one to make the most of all the potential of the discovery.

Ferran Soriano

#20. Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.

Frank Sinatra

#21. It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous

Monica Murphy

#22. Your so bitter, like kitty litter.

Big Daddy Kane