Properly Quotes

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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but… — Dennis Potter
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. â€œMiss Collins. I have not yet… — Cassandra Clare
I reassured my mother that it didnâ€™t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how… — Malala Yousafzai
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some… — Charles Lamb
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. — Helen Schucman
If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything. — Iris Apfel
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of… — Richard Simmons
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. — Mark Twain
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. — Garry Trudeau
There is properly no history, only biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan
My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away… — Lee Iacocca
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might… — Samuel Johnson
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone… — Denis Diderot
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of… — Martin Gardner
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a… — Victor J. Stenger
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all. — William Godwin
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves. — Eda LeShan
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much… — R. H. Tawney

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