Proper Quotes

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.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

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.

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.

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.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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?

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?