Improper Quotes
74 quotes by 65 authors
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts…
— Umberto Eco
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Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for…
— Chinua Achebe
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One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us…
— David A. Bednar
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Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test…
— Charles Duhigg
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Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an…
— Susan Glaspell
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper…
— Michael Sheen
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring…
— Gary Bauer
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
— R Buckminster Fuller
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I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
— John Burns
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God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we…
— Joyce Meyer
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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedythe feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the…
— James Joyce
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