Proper Quotes

Proper names are rigid designators.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.