Properly Quotes

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.