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There was an old man of Thermopylae, Who never did anything properly; But they said,'If you choose To boil eggs in your shoes, You shall never remain inThermopylae.'
Edward Lear— 1872 MoreNonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany Etc,'One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes'.
Every manhas a property in his person.Thisno body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
john locke— 1681Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
greg bear— p. 54 (Hardfought (1983))
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
jonathan edwards— Diary (July 7, 1724)
We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
— Remarks to American Field Service Students (15 July 1958).
He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.
o. henry— "The Plutonian Fire"
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
ralph barton perry— "Non-Resistance and The Present War - A Reply to Mr. Russell," International Journal of Ethics (April 1915), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 307-316
A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.
romilly, john, 1st baron romilly— Att.-Gen. v. Warden, &c. of Louth School (1852), 14 Beav. 206.
With a bronze mirror, one can see whether he is properly attired; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a nation; with men as a mirror, one can see whether he is right or wrong. Now I've lost my faithful mirror by the death of Weizheng.
— Quoted in: Yanqing Vanessa Ong et al. Memories unfolded: a guide to memories at Old Ford Factory, 2008, p. 50
— Quoted regarding his advisor.Few men in history would be so frank and honest with their monarch and when Weizheng died, Taizong was overwhelmed with grief. The Emperor said to his ministers,
Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
andrei tarkovsky— p. 162 (Sculpting in Time (1986))
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
theodor adorno— p. 9 (Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964))
Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection .
Matthew Arnold— Ch. I, Sweetness and Light.
Symons … remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.
Alain de Botton— p. 113 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))
My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
william a. dembski— p. 206 (Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999))
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
benjamin graham— Chapter III, The Paradox of the Stockpile, p. 23
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— G 8 (Notebook G (1779-1783))
What they, in their innocence , cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy , decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
thomas mann— "Tonio Kröger" on general opinions about artists.
The struggle against war, properly understood and executed, presupposes the uncompromising hostility of the proletariat and its organizations, always and everywhere, toward its own and every other imperialist bourgeoisie...
— "Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau" (July 1936)
He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!
desmond tutu— As quoted in "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu" at BBC News (2 June 2006)
With a bronze mirror, one can see whether he is properly attired; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a nation ; with men as a mirror, one can see whether he is right or wrong. Now I've lost my faithful mirror by the death of Weizheng.
— Quoted in: Yanqing Vanessa Ong et al. Memories unfolded: a guide to memories at Old Ford Factory, 2008, p. 50
— Quoted regarding his advisor.Few men in history would be so frank and honest with their monarch and when Weizheng died, Taizong was overwhelmed with grief. The Emperor said to his ministers,
Our public prayers too often consist almost entirely of passages of Scripture not always judiciously chosen or well arranged and common-place phrases, which have been transmitted down for ages, from one generation to another, selected and put together just as we would compose a sermon or essay, while the heart is allowed no share in the performance; so that we may more properly be said to make a prayer than to pray.
— Edward Payson, p. 472. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.
— Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Book II Chapter I, p. 305
These Courts were very properly adapted to the customs, manners, genius and policy of a people upon their first settlement: but, like all other human jurisdictions, vary in the course and progress of time, as the Government and manners of a people take a different turn, and fall under different circumstances.
— Referring to Court leet; Lord Mansfield, Colebrooke v. Elliott (1765) 3 Burr. Part IV., p. 1863.
I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have risen by the Judges not properly applying the principles of the common law, being too narrowly governed by old cases and maxims, which have too much prevented the public from having the benefit of the common law.
— Wilmot, L.C.J., Collins v. Blantern (1767), 2 Wils. 341.
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager , but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.
— C. West Churchman (1964) "Managerial acceptance of scientific recommendations". In: California Management Review Vol 7, p.33. cited in: Peter P. Schoderbek (1971) Management systems. p.199
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garretson Trudeau— Garry Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip.
Since such very powerful kings have not disdained walls built of brick, although... they might often have had them not only of masonry or dimension stone but even of marble, I think that one ought not to reject buildings made of brick-work, provided that they are properly "topped."
— Chapter VIII, Sec. 16 (Book II)
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
— George W. Bush, in Controlled Chaos, (10 September 2007), p.292
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.
george orwell— "Revenge is Sour", Tribune (9 November 1945).
I want to bury him. properly, without magic.
— Who: Harry Potter
— Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
