Properly Quotes
1100 quotes by 881 authors
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
— Samuel Johnson
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Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
— Guido van Rossum
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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage,…
— Plato
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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so…
— Kenny Smith
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The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it.…
— Christopher West
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
— Pema Chodron
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Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore,…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time…
— Anna Lindh
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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain…
— Michael Merzenich
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But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only…
— Silas House
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It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I…
— Joe Quesada
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Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly done it brings…
— Viktor Schauberger
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And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be…
— John S. Pistole
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In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be…
— Pauline Hanson
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend…
— Henry A. Wallace
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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