Properly Quotes

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The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict… — Harry Reid
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are… — Helen Suzman
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and… — Learned Hand
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest… — William James
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain
Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to… — Allan Bloom
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. — Samuel Johnson
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there… — Elizabeth Bowen
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc.… — Gilbert Highet
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that… — Frederic Raphael
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick

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