Appropriate Quotes

788 Appropriate quotes by 669 unique authors

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command — Ambrose Bierce
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline.… — Eric Burns
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes… — Unknown Author
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on.… — Jackie Huggins
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. — Hippocrates
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture,… — Steven Clark Rockefeller
We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any… — Unknown Author
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. — Hamza Yusuf
My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. — Unknown Author
Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership should be reflected… — Unknown Author
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical… — Gustav Nossal
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and… — Unknown Author
...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to… — Al Gore
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how… — Jonathon Porritt
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. — Aristotle
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to… — Karl Marx
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn… — Benjamin Bloom
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. — Hippocrates

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