Proper Quotes

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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,… — John Lanchester
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football. — Gary Neville
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System,… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when… — Jerry Bridges
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. — Don Nickles
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is… — Melina Mercouri
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly. — Tony Vincent
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is… — Samuel Johnson
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the… — Terry Pratchett
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. — Irving Kristol
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! — Thomas A. Edison
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book… — Ezra Pound
A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace,… — Matt Chandler
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers… — George S. Patton
And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only]… — Reginald Fessenden
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper… — Michel de Montaigne
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be… — Marcus Aurelius

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