Top 342 Appropriate Quotes

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.
Rhys Ifans
I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That’s really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to second guess.
Ben Bernanke
The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.
Mohammad bin Salman
I do not – I never believed it’s better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
John O. Brennan
I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.
Herbie Hancock
All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that’s not to say that there shouldn’t be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends’ language, my grandmother’s language, the language in my mouth – you’re going to tell me that’s improper?
Jason Reynolds
There’s only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
Kim Gordon
If a novel were written about Florida’s administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: ‘Don’t get sick, and God help you if you do.’
Joy Reid
Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.
Rupert Friend
Local Arab partners and the Iraqi government must lead the fight against ISIL. U.S. military advisers are important to this effort, but we cannot be engaged in combat operations. That is why Congress must revoke the previous war authorization and define our appropriate role in defeating ISIL.
Brian Schatz
When you get older, you have to wrestle with what’s appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?
Stephen Malkmus
If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.
Andrew Weil
When training intelligently, 'one size doesn't fit all.

When training intelligently, ‘one size doesn’t fit all.’ There are exercises and weights appropriate for some body types, ages, and overall objectives and not for others.
David Kirsch
All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.
Chris Gibson
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
Charles Duhigg
You’re going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.
Max Levchin
I definitely don’t want to appropriate… not in an ‘overly PC’ way though.
Mura Masa
Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
Jay Weatherill
Every time I come across learning items of interest, I’ll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.
Fred DeLuca
Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zika is spreading.
Tom Frieden
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
Henry James
I look at the group I’ve got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.
Sean Dyche
I’m tired of advertisers being the gatekeepers of what is and is not appropriate on news shows.
Ana Kasparian
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.
David Olusoga
Most of us don’t think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting ‘comedic’ accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
Alex Pareene
I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it’s very appropriate.
Gilbert Baker
There are times where you can’t do it yourself and the system takes over, or it’s appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.
Prince William
We’re 50 per cent of the population so it’s appropriate we’re reflected everywhere as people who take part in society in a really proactive way – that women aren’t just reactive, they’re out there doing stuff.
Lesley Sharp
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
Valerie Jarrett
Yeah, we’re definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it’s all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of ‘getting together with people just for the sake of it’ kind of thing.
Grace Chatto
When we run out of them upstairs, I’ve been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of ‘Eat this, Not That!’ fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the ‘not that’ category. I made a note of it.
Lester Holt
No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn’t appropriate.
Marco Rubio
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: ‘I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.’
Brian Greene
I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
Chuck Robb
It’s appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
Janet Yellen
Kickstarter is not appropriate for a blogger who writes weekly articles – he doesn’t need a big chunk of money, and he has no big project to use it for. He needs monthly income, and Patreon brings crowd funding away from singular one-off projects and into the realm of regular content creation.
Jack Conte
It’s important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion.
Anushka Shetty
I don’t remember threatening anybody, ever. I don’t like threats. I don’t respond well to them, so I don’t give them. But I’m not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.
Roger Ailes
That’s what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we’ll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Yeah, it’s more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It’s not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters – and the parameters we play in are pretty large!
Charlie Hunter
A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.
Primo Angeli
As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
Helen Fisher
I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic – basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.
Emma Thompson
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appro

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
Chuck Feeney
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.
Melissa Rosenberg
It’s never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge’s personal convictions – whether they derive from faith or anywhere else – on the law.
Amy Coney Barrett
Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It’s important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they’re adaptable and because they’re not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
Alan G. Poindexter
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.
Al Franken
I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
It’s all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It’s all right to talk about how we’re going to appropriate.
Sheila Jackson Lee