Properly Quotes

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyâ€™ll go through anything. You read and youâ€™re pierced. — Aldous Huxley
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. — Erma Bombeck
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes… — Neil Postman
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at… — Libba Bray
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,… — Terry Pratchett
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not… — C.S. Lewis
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears… — Libba Bray
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. — Jane Austen
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the… — Haruki Murakami
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly. — James A. Owen
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all… — J D Salinger
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. — Banksy

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