Proper Quotes - page 2

The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. (Oscar Wilde)
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. View quote
David Bohm
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God. View quote
Billy Corgan
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. View quote
William Cowper
Sheer necessity,the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. View quote
David Hume
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. View quote
Hart Crane
The proper study of mankind is woman. View quote
Henry Adams
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. (Andrew Carnegie)
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. View quote
Ellen Willis
There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. View quote
Michelle Gomez
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places and the elegance of effect which is due to adjustments appropriate to the character of the work. Its forms of expression are these: ground plan, elevation, and perspective. ...All three come of reflexion and invention. View quote
Vitruvius
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class. View quote
Vitruvius
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape. View quote
Pliny the Elder
He was raised without a proper diagnosis. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy. (Loretta Napoleoni)
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. View quote
William Vickrey
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. View quote
Lee Konitz
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. View quote
Zebulon Pike
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