Appropriate Quotes

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.