Properly Quotes
1100 quotes by 881 authors
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And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
— Anita Brookner
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Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all…
— Martin Heidegger
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What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly,…
— Hugh Laurie
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Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds…
— J R Ward
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
— Ben Okri
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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
— Anton Chekhov
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Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate."…
— Ilona Andrews
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Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over…
— Shaun Tan
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Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the…
— Rick Riordan
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I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry…
— Yann Martel
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A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.
— Shannon Hale
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And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his,…
— J R Ward
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The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms…
— Kate Morton
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Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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