Appropriate Quotes

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

I'm not going to bargain in the media because I don't think that's appropriate.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.