Proper Quotes

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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to… — Emmeline Pankhurst
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including… — Noam Chomsky
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction,… — Thomas S. Monson
We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is… — Thomas S. Monson
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong, — Gordon Brown
America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions… — Gordon Brown
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
Time puts things in proper perspective. — Cameron Crowe
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter.… — Charles Grandison Finney
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence… — Alan Keyes
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details… — William James
People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he… — Thierry Henry
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on… — Pope Leo XIII
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper… — Alexander Wang
Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper… — Tony Buzan
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of… — Stephen Levine
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will… — Samuel Johnson
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard… — P T Barnum
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be… — Unknown Author

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