Top 1200 Proper Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.
I hadn't seen anything of 'The Originals' until I was down to the end for the role and I watched the whole fourth season, and then, when I got it, I did my proper homework.
I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts
I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.
The Brexit Party doesn't have any candidates, because it's not a proper political party.
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.
To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
Especially in our industry, everything is so prim and proper; you'll never really see anyone show their sad side, because everyone wants to be perfect.
It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework
They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for school'. They didn't mind - they let me stay up.
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.
When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.
What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy
This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.
We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
When you're talking about proper competition, I think Formula E has good competition.
I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.
I'm in this game to give the fans proper fights, fights they will remember.
I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.
Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.
The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.
I like men that shop in Gap and look like proper boys.
