Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
William Reddington Hewlett

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
Todd Gitlin

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.
Suzanne Lafollette

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
Jim Evans

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Ellen Willis

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
Richard Perle

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Franklin P. Jones

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
Flavius Josephus

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
David Viscott

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
Ninette de Valois

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
Colleen Atwood