Proper Quotes
1575 quotes by 1233 authors
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various…
— Aristotle
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
— Margaret Atwood
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and…
— Francis Bacon
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
— William Bartram
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
— Joseph Addison
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use,…
— Alfred Adler
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
— Buffalo Bill
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not…
— David Bohm
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.
— Christina Aguilera
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
— Ray Bradbury
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With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes…
— Jo Brand
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We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's…
— Richard Branson
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
— Alton Brown
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom…
— Harry Browne
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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