Proper Quotes

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Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper… — Russell Brand
Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that… — Rick Riordan
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I… — Milton Friedman
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social… — Wendell Berry
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. — Norton Juster
Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business… — Jane Lindskold
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught… — Tamora Pierce
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy,… — D. A. Carson
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it… — Robert B. Parker
The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me. — Ali Smith
To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to… — Thomas S. Monson
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. — John Kennedy Toole
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts,… — Marcus Aurelius
I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross… — Stephen Colbert
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on… — Anne Rice
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great… — Christopher Marlowe
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion

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