Proper Quotes

• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Tongue
  • Proper
  • Comb

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

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Place
  • Proper
  • Sadism

• The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

  

  Confucius
  • Change
  • Proper
  • Governs

• The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Study
  • Wise

• For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

  

  Anthony Capella
  • Regret
  • Taste
  • Pleasures

• Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Education
  • Intelligence
  • Proper

• The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting?

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Everyone
  • Deliver
  • Investigative

• As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Fall
  • Gods
  • Fingers

• To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Evolution

• I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Important
  • Weather
  • Spirits

• Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

  

  Steven Price
  • Music
  • Response
  • Proper

• Life itself is the proper binge.

  

  Julia Child
  • Life
  • Proper
  • Binge

• We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" — with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

  

  Asahel Nettleton
  • Good
  • Spirit
  • Doing

• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Information

• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Body
  • Sense
  • Meditation

• Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

  

  Charles W. Socarides
  • Gender
  • Homosexuality
  • Disorder

• We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

  

  Saul David
  • History
  • True
  • Reading

• I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Remember
  • Having
  • Grammar

• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Feel
  • Sincerity
  • Proper

• My family is really proper.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • Family
  • Proper

• We must never exercise our rights either wickedly or thoughtlessly; we can continue to preserve them in but one possible way, by making the proper use of them.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Exercise
  • Continue
  • Proper

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