Proper Quotes

Art is the proper task of life.

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.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

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.

I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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.

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.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

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.