Top 342 Appropriate Quotes

We will never abdicate the security of the United State

We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.
John O. Brennan
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.
Richard Grenell
I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.
Jason Bateman
If you look at other countries, you’ll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It’s something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what’s appropriate for each of the two sexes.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
Nicolaus Copernicus
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don’t think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.
Joe Lhota
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ‘agnostic’.
Thomas Huxley
It’s totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I’ve every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
Bill Clegg
I have always stayed out of politics, I don’t believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.
Kirsty Coventry
The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
Ed Royce
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
Freeman Dyson
Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an ‘appropriate’ life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what’s to keep it from happening to me or you?
Hilton Als
I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.
Kurt Schrader
There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.
Moby
I’m a businesswoman, and Ms. is an appropriate form of address.
Letitia Baldrige
Call things by their right names – Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
Jack Abramoff
A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn’t find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
Janet Weiss
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics – except doing public work to the best of my ability.
John Abbott
I don’t think there’s any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don’t think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it’s appropriate.
David Gregory
I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.
Stevie Nicks
I think that Jamal Khashoggi was an enemy of the state, and I don’t really think that it’s appropriate for American media institutions to be, you know, trying to generate sympathy. He’s not a hero.
Laura Loomer
I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.
Condoleezza Rice
We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy are often actually lower than those paid by the rest of us.
Pete Buttigieg
Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you’re making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet’s diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.
Alison Sweeney
If National Security Agency (NSA) heads fundamentally lack an understanding of what constitutes constitutionally protected communications, or worse, chose to disregard those directives, then it’s time for the appropriate heads of these agencies to resign.
Mark Meadows
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
I think a film should be appropriate to what it’s trying to say or the characters in it.
Kelly Asbury
Cerner’s focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.
Neal Patterson
Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.
MS Dhoni
I think it’s appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resi

Unless we understand a certain material – metal or resin and plastic – understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example – we can never develop and define form that’s appropriate.
Jonathan Ive
And it seems to me correct then, and I think it’s correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that’s done, it’s completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.
Michael Chertoff
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Ulrich Beck
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it’s about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you’re in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn’t be appropriate for Priest.
Glenn Tipton
I couldn’t describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could – but I don’t think that it would be appropriate.
Christine Quinn
President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn’t get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
Lamar Alexander
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I’m really not the world’s best programmer, I think it’s a good thing that I’m not touching the code.
Brian Behlendorf
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
Gavin Newsom
I don’t know what first got me to attack melons. It’s not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit.
Ricky Jay
‘Suit’ garnered a lot of appreciation and love from the audience, and it gives me immense happiness to start my Bollywood journey with such a wonderful track. ‘Hindi Medium’ posed a perfect and appropriate opportunity to showcase my song and ensure that the beautiful track reaches the global audience.
Guru Randhawa
A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.
Andrew Ng
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner
Preventing staff from having too much influence and decision-making power is fairly easy. Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.
Michael O’Rielly
Sure, it’s nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don’t think personal accolades are appropriate in football.
Toni Kroos
A lot of the strength of an RPG world lies in its foundation: its systems, lore, and when appropriate, its magic systems. While there are elements tied to ‘Project: Eternity’ that at first glance seem to be classic fantasy, that’s intentional – we do want to recreate some elements of a High Fantasy experience.
Chris Avellone
Figuring out how to keep our site safe and accessible for young people, and at the same time make it interesting, challenging, and age appropriate for older people is something that we’re working heavily on.
David Baszucki
I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.
Colleen Atwood
The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.
Owen Paterson
There’s an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that’s appropriate for them.
Sundar Pichai