Appropriate Quotes

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.