Proper Quotes

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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. — Aga Khan IV
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking. — Emily Henderson
The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a… — Sri Chinmoy
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the… — Gaston Bachelard
...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our… — M. Russell Ballard
Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change." — Albert Einstein
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows… — Andrew Marr
But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to… — Todd McFarlane
When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben… — Paul Harvey
...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all… — Gaylord Nelson
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome… — Rudyard Kipling
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of… — Ron Paul
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only… — Ayn Rand
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government. — Jean Chretien
If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration,… — Louis Bromfield
Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper… — Pope John Paul II
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper… — Toby Young
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in… — Thomas Sydenham

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