Appropriate Quotes

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...

I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.

Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make.

Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely wan to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behaviour will flow automatically. Believe it and you will see it.

I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

I do not think it is appropriate for teenage boys and girls to share the same bathroom.

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.

While I don't think that Twitter is really an appropriate place for someone who seriously needs help, it shows the impact that we can have when we collectively come together to support someone.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.

The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain.