Proper Quotes

1575 Proper quotes by 1191 unique authors

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere — Lin Yutang
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper? — William Golding
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the… — W. Eugene Smith
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper… — Thomas Bernhard
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince… — Jonathan Mayhew
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For… — Brian Swimme
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow
I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over… — Nick Hornby
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him… — Maria Montessori
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone.… — Christian D. Larson
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we… — Hugh MacDiarmid
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in… — Oscar Peterson
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from… — Frederic Bastiat
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness… — Johannes Kepler
I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct… — John Wooden
A chronicle is very different from history proper. — Howard Nemerov
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the… — Richard Preston
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an… — Maria Montessori
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for… — Miriam Toews
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret;… — Ivan Illich
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,… — Robert Owen
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so — William Redington Hewlett
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer… — Ibn Khaldun
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place… — Ibn Khaldun

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