Proper Quotes

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

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

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.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

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.