#strictly

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. ↗

— Mel Torme

#band #did #garland #her #i

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital #capital punishment #defensive #however #ignorance

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#born #conduct #correct #doctrine #equal

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#follow #insane #man #new #old

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #essential #man #mere #ordinary

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#funny #never #only #political #strictly

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #best way #enforce #get #law

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. ↗

— Charles Vest

#american #american life #begun #economic #education