Proper Quotes

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.

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.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

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

Art is the proper task of life.