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«A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts»
Author: Diodicus
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
Beautiful Thing, Father, Father of, kept, less than, properly, The Father
«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.»
Author: G. B. Trudeau
| Keywords:
college student, commencement, largely, outgoing, properly, released, sedate, sedated, Speeches| Occasions:
Graduation
«Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.»
Author: Omar Bradley
(General)
| About:
Bravery
| Keywords:
bravery, perform, properly, scared, Scared to Death
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
declaratory, original, properly, properly speaking, speaking, substance
«Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Discipline,
Parents
| Keywords:
properly
«Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us»
«A goal properly set is halfway reached.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
goal, Goal setting, halfway, properly, reached, set, Set Your Goals
«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, attacks, general, general rule, offer, properly, provoked, provokes, reports, report it, wishing
«Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
building, buying, complicate, complicated, complicates, computer, darken, darkened, darkening, darkens, no more, nuclear, nuclear reactor, parts, properly, reactor, right to work, room, teeth, using, wristwatch
«All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
capital, capitalist, contrast, controls, control system, dictator, earn, Free market, like kings, owns, Private Lives, properly, socialist, socialists, systems, the capital, the market, The Socialist
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