Proper Quotes

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.