Proper Quotes

1575 Proper quotes by 1191 unique authors

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. — Isaac Asimov
Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had… — Robin McKinley
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,… — Twyla Tharp
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand… — Carter G. Woodson
Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. — Lynne Truss
God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect. — William P. Young
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color. — Scott Adams
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then… — Pope Benedict XVI
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate… — Jeanette Winterson
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you… — Mark Twain
Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You… — Justina Chen
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them… — David Hume
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our… — Herman Melville
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit. — Charlotte Bronte
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally… — Harry S. Truman
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours… — Ayn Rand
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding. — Jenny Valentine

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