The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.
The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.
To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. . . . They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action. Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed. . . to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless. . . If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.