Properly Quotes
1100 quotes by 881 authors
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.
— Jennifer Garner
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to…
— Phil Collins
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind…
— Simon Cowell
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the…
— Mike Ditka
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You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise…
— Mike Ditka
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and…
— George Eliot
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
— Umberto Eco
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;…
— Jonathan Edwards
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
— Farrah Fawcett
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I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find…
— Tim Ferriss
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
— Henry Fielding
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a…
— Zaha Hadid
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
— David Hume
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