Properly Quotes
1100 quotes by 881 authors
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Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling…
— Frederick Lenz
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John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
— Rich Lowry
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Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a…
— Paul Davies
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America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft…
— Thomas McGuane
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Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches;…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts…
— Gerhard Richter
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Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins.…
— Nathaniel Branden
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If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.
— Dave Barry
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Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
— Vaclav Havel
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a…
— William Hazlitt
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Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly…
— John Bunyan
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Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds.…
— Janet Malcolm
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
— Harold Pinter
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All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
— Charles Hodge
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I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the…
— Bryan Adams
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some…
— Peter Gabriel
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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used…
— Sakya Pandita
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