Appropriate Quotes

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate.

They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.

Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.