Improper Quotes
74 quotes by 65 authors
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My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I…
— Peter M. Brant
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
— William Osler
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God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we…
— Marcus Garvey
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Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You…
— Frederick Lenz
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number,…
— Danica McKellar
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our…
— Ted Nugent
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As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would…
— Eliot Spitzer
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady…
— Jane Austen
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The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
— Truman Capote
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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will…
— Jane Austen
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Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading…
— William Safire
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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He…
— Gena Showalter
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Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other…
— E. M. Forster
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(...)Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?" "No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that if he made…
— Judith McNaught
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