A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Robin Tunney

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
Charles Edwards

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

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.
Robert Grosseteste

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
Stanley Schmidt

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Ivan Pavlov

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Edward Sapir

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
George C. Williams

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Rowan D. Williams

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
Norman Granz

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Roman Jakobson

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
Ben Bernanke