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Quotes About Properly

There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.
~ Abdul Qadeer Khan
All men are weak,' said Phin. 'That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.' My breath caught at the power of this statement. I immediately knew it to be the truest thing I'd ever heard. The weakness of men lay at the root of every bad thing that had ever happened.
~ Lisa Jewell
Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?
~ Russell T Davies
Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
~ Vaclav Havel
Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.
~ Allen Carr
My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
~ Sean Pertwee
It's blackmail.' 'He says you can't love someone properly without …' 'I bet he does.' Kit sounded sarcastic.
~ Maeve Binchy
The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be matchless
~ Sunday Adelaja
You can often tell what style someone practices merely by looking at the type of knot someone has in the front of a hakama. Some iaido schools have elaborate systems for tying their hakama. My sensei uses a simple square knot: he's mostly concerned that the knot is properly placed and doesn't come undone. It's hard to be deadly while your pants are falling down.
~ John Donohue
Properly speaking, a proviso is a clause that introduces a condition by the word provided.
~ Antonin Scalia
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
~ Arne Jacobsen
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
~ Nate Ruess
I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
~ Clarence Thomas
It isn't ceasing to live that [I'm] afraid of but never beginning to live properly?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
~ Jon Krakauer
Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking him if she had not spoken very properly.
~ George Eliot
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson
Your child! Wouldn't they be kept properly for him, and for the family, if the jewellers had them? I don't believe you care about your child.
~ Anthony Trollope
tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World. . .and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn, Buzz hinted, he might have to take it over and run it properly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction.
~ John Stuart Mill
Until and unless your love is devoid of conditions. Believe you me, you are not loving rightly or properly. For, your love ought to be devoid of conditions at all times. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
~ Damian Lewis
System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
~ George Washington
Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.
~ Michael Hirst