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I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks. — Bella Thorne

What's proper workplace etiquette for picking up computer and tossing out window? Open window first or break glass? — Abigail Roux

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. — Moliere

It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. — A.A. Milne

the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42 — Niall Ferguson

With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break. — Kevin Pietersen

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. — John Lancaster Spalding

Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love. — Frederick Lenz

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain. — Fennel Hudson

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost — George Horne

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler. — Rainbow Rowell

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity. — Franz Stampfl

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. — C.S. Lewis

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. — D.H. Lawrence

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. — Gelila Bekele

Thus do I capitalize years as though they were proper names. — Kurt Vonnegut

We all need to take a proper break once in a while. — Samantha Sotto

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. — Lynne Truss

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art. — Michael Mosley

Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking. — Emily Henderson

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman. — David Lloyd George

As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines. — Andrew Davidson

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so. — William Reddington Hewlett

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer. — Jim Ratcliffe

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on — Lauren Graham

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey

There is only one thing that could make me near homicidal. Yeah - this is called My Proper Tea. — Doc Brown

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry. — James Dyson

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Reveal God to the people and teach them His ways — Sunday Adelaja

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life. — Valerie Simpson

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. — Henri Frederic Amiel

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder. — Laozi

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man. — Marcus Aurelius

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses. — Thom Yorke

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification. — John Stuart Mill

Time puts things in proper perspective. — Cameron Crowe

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. — Graham Norton

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. — Morihei Ueshiba

The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others. No — John Calvin

Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings — Alexander Stepanov

I was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship. — Perrie Edwards

I like things in their proper places. — Alan Sugar

I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade ... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake. — Stephen Colbert

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt

He was too bold," said Abigail with a shake of her head. "It was not proper. And he is Roman." Leah — Janette Oke

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither. — Rita Dove

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu

Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief. — Louisa May Alcott

A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support. — Jonah Books

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format. — Donald Norman

Always use the proper name of things. Fear of s name increased fear of the thing itself. — J.K. Rowling

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. — Mary Antin

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge. — Orrin Hatch

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. — Richard Branson

By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you — Sunday Adelaja

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. — Joseph Addison

I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu ... she bid me a don't. — Rodney Dangerfield

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis

The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. — Arnold Bennett

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman. — Mata Amritanandamayi

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. — Patricia Highsmith

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful ... — Tom Hornbein

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. — Paula Creamer

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland

Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend. — Lee Bo-na

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you. — Homer

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden. — Tasha Tudor

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late. — Andre Maurois

I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax. — Karl Pilkington

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. — Michael Shermer

A proper bond between two people is severely damaged if the process is rushed. — James C. Dobson

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus

Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations. — Charles Dickens

I don't have proper places to run. — Nader Al-Masri

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it. — John Candy

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words. — Radhanath Swami

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. — Johannes Kepler

My house feels like a proper home. It's very relaxed with a hippyish vibe. — Cat Deeley

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. — Peter Maurin

Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends. — Clifford Whittingham Beers

Drawn up and signed by the proper parties, wherein Epps acknowledged he — Solomon Northup

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. — Eileen Wilks

I believe that proper eating will help all sorts of diseases. I can't say it will cure, but I can say it will materially help. — David H. Murdock

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper. — Alexandra Stoddard

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation. — G.S. Jennsen