Proper Quotes

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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… — Stephen Jay Gould
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out… — William Morris
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a… — Thomas Paine
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and… — Robert A. Heinlein
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. — Daniel Webster
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with… — Homer
The proper study of Mankind is Everything. — Margaret Atwood
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he… — Desmond Tutu
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end,… — Marina Warner
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… — Herman Melville
God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
All names will soon be restored to their proper owners. — C.S. Lewis
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. — Oscar Wilde
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. — C.S. Lewis
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as… — Jane Austen
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form… — Julian Barnes
Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life… — Lorrie Moore
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing… — Gary L. Blackwood
The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything. — Terry Goodkind
It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin. — Unknown Author
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury

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