Properly Quotes

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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than… — Eva Ibbotson
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a… — Sarah Dunn
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and… — Neil Gaiman
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I… — James Patterson
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains,… — Richard Dawkins
The easiest way to do anything is properly. — K.J. Parker
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith
Iâ€™d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but… — Yann Martel
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on… — D. H. Lawrence
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen
I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on… — Melissa Marr
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for… — Thomas Aquinas
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. — Charles Fort
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote… — William Least Heat-Moon
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear… — David Sedaris
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier

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