Top 100 Proper Quotes
#1. This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all serve as the plot for another story, for a different novel, which I do not even know that I shall ever undertake.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
Xavier Dolan
#4. Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The proper study of mankind is man" you know
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
#6. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.
Tessa Jowell
#7. Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.
Sun Ra
#8. Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Edward Rutledge
#9. 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.
David Bohm
#10. Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.
Brendan Gleeson
#11. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#12. If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
Luke Evans
#13. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.
Piet Hein
#14. Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
Chogyam Trungpa
#15. Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.
Wafa Sultan
#16. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#17. Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
Sergio Mattarella
#18. Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
Gelila Bekele
#19. Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
Giordano Bruno
#20. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#21. The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit.
John Piper
#22. A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.
Norm MacDonald
#23. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready
Robert Asprin
#24. If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.
James Farley
#25. The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.
David A. Bednar
#26. In other words, "free markets" ideology, with its libertarian idealism, has in fact produced Mussolini-style corporatism. And until we learn to call the resulting looting by its proper name, it is certain to continue.
Yves Smith
#27. I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
Bella Thorne
#28. What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?
Amy Tan
#29. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#30. The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort to leave a transparent trace of God's love in our life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#31. Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#32. speed is a skill; therefore, the skill of sprinting can be taught if proper progression and principles of motor learning are applied.
Vern Gambetta
#33. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.
Auliq Ice
#34. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson
#35. When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
Epictetus
#36. Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
Beverley Knight
#37. The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?
Cheshire Cat
#38. Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.
D. A. Carson
#39. It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
David Chiles
#40. I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.
Miranda Raison
#41. You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!
Diana Gabaldon
#42. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
David Daiches
#43. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
Ronald Reagan
#44. It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."
She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been best friends with since she was barely old enough to walk?"
He shook his head. "Those are the worst.
Marissa Meyer
#45. It hasn't snowed like this for years. Real, proper snow. Dickensian snow,
Sophie Kinsella
#46. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.
Steven Weinberg
#47. Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Isaac Newton
#48. The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.
John C. Calhoun
#49. I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
Martha Reeves
#50. Separation is painful, but so is its opposite. And if being together brings joy, then it is only proper that separation should do the same in its own way.
Yukio Mishima
#51. Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies.
Ellen G. White
#53. An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.
Wendell Berry
#54. I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.
Jim Sturgess
#55. 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.
Joseph Butler
#56. to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all.
Charles Bukowski
#57. You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
#58. Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
Martin Van Buren
#59. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#60. That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Robert Southey
#61. The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. But when necessary and proper battle it out, necessary always wins.
Bethany Wiggins
#63. The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth
Prince Philip
#64. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. He touched me. We kissed and we held hands sometimes. It was proper. Do you think I should have been with him in that way?" "Hell, no. He's probably not capable." "He's married now. They have children." "Must be Catholic." "What makes you say that?" "Virgin births.
Ellen O'Connell
#66. It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.
Louisa May Alcott
#67. Vigilance is the proper, constructive concern for the well-being of others and for the advancement of God's Kingdom.[136] Anxiety, then, is vigilance that has lost sight of God.[137]
Heather Choate Davis
#68. Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.
Je Tsongkhapa
#69. If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.
Hortense Canady
#70. It's like being a fairy named Mary," he goes on. "Or a vampire named Gampire," I say. "Gampire isn't even a proper name, Snow. You're terrible at this game.
Rainbow Rowell
#71. I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.
Olly Murs
#72. Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
Joseph Addison
#73. The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#74. Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
Jules Renard
#75. A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.
Robert Spencer
#76. The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.
Art Hoppe
#77. Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a
C. G. Jung
#78. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#79. Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.
James Salter
#80. I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington
#81. The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction, that we might chart and follow a wise and proper course. He whom we call our Heavenly Father will not leave our sincere petition unanswered.
Thomas S. Monson
#82. Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
George Amos Dorsey
#83. Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.
Stephen Levine
#84. Sometimes a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind.
Leigh Bardugo
#85. Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.
Summer Sanders
#86. The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.
Ted Cruz
#87. The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.
Geza Vermes
#88. Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not'
In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#89. Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#90. What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is about proper directions and understanding the data.
Deyth Banger
#91. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
Alexander McCall Smith
#92. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Jeanette Winterson
#93. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus
#94. I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
Jimmy Wales
#95. You can't blame me," Ascanio said. "Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don't even have a proper horse. You're riding a mutant equine of unknown origin."
"Don't disrespect my donkey
Ilona Andrews
#96. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#97. The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.
Virginia Woolf
#98. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Baal Shem Tov
#99. Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
George W. Crane
#100. The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
