Proper Quotes

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.

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.