Proper Quotes

1575 Proper quotes by 1191 unique authors

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance. — Don Meyer
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of… — Unknown Author
If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance,… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter… — Fred Bear
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global… — David Bryant
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. — Norm MacDonald
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. — Polybius
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait. — Vincent de Paul
Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation. — Unknown Author
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. — Unknown Author
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions,… — Louis of Granada
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and… — John Winthrop
A man was made to help support his children, which is the right and proper thing to do. A man was made to help support… — Unknown Author
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. — Marcus Aurelius
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity. — Unknown Author
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur M. Wellington
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems. — Stanford Moore
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of… — Unknown Author
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides… — David Quammen
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXIII

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