Quotes About Appropriateness

#1. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#2. I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

Eyvind Kang

#3. I do believe in an everyday sort of magic
the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

Charles De Lint

#4. Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

Myrtle Aydelotte

#5. Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Rem Koolhaas

#6. But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered;

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

James Joyce

#8. I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Vivian Campbell

#9. If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"-deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

Simon Doonan

#10. A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

Benjamin Carson

#11. The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.

Charles Dudley Warner

#12. My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Terence McKenna

#13. Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she would compel us to reflect.

Victor Hugo

#14. Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Stephen Levine

#15. My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Courtney Love

#16. There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

Frans De Waal

#17. Rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

John J. McCloy

#18. [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Albert Bandura

#19. What happened?" I asked, squinting at his face.
Cole glanced at Max. "I wanted to jump in after you. Max disagreed with the appropriateness of that reaction. And then his face ran into my fist.

Brodi Ashton

#20. People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Hillary Clinton

#21. Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

Amy Dickinson

#24. Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Lois Lowry

#25. The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Gustave Eiffel

#26. Greatness is never built on fear or doubt; believe in yourself for in you are seeds of greatness - rjs

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#27. She was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like saying lightening is hazardous. It's a statement of fact that will always be a given.

Patricia Cornwell

#28. Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Criss Jami

#29. Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

Pamela Anderson

#30. A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.

Rodney Dangerfield

#31. According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.

Kurt Eichenwald

#32. It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Giacomo Leopardi

#33. All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done.

Charles Wesley

#34. After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Kate Morton

#35. People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Brittany Howard

#36. The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#37. The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

Bobby Seale

#38. at least some paleontologists believe that the demise
of the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.

Carl Sagan

#39. Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

Javier Marias

#40. At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Avi Arad

#41. The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Mahnaz Afkhami