Stringently Means Quotes & Sayings

Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations — Charles Darwin

During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their 'low contracted prejudices.' And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment - until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. — Earl Wilson

It is the nature of walls that they should fall. — Jeanette Winterson

I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there. — Kathryn Harrison

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. — John Steinbeck

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. — Charles Spurgeon