To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
Anna Held

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
Paul Kane

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
Adnan Pachachi

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
Julius Wellhausen

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
Bob Woodward

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.
Grandmaster Flash

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
Anthony Holden

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.
Brian Higgins

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
Dave Davies

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
Gloria Gaynor

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
Theodor Geisel

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves.
Eda J. Le Shan

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon