Proper Place Quotes
50 quotes by 47 authors
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[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if…
— Harold Wilson
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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just…
— Julian Baggini
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near…
— Vikram Seth
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Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and…
— Joshua Reynolds
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We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other…
— David Steindl-Rast
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place,…
— John Ruskin
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
— Robert Schumann
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Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's…
— Anne Bronte
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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
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Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that…
— Rick Riordan
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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
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I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
— Neil Gaiman
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its…
— Sarah Dessen
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If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes…
— Paulo Coelho
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