Top 560 Properly Quotes

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli
Financiers don’t support their directors to cast properly. They don’t have the vision of an artist. They’re casting to spreadsheets, and it’s making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
Patricia Arquette
I didn’t start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.
Peaches Geldof
I have been a business guy all my life, and I know that when you have a real problem, you can’t cut your way out of the problem. Too often we try to skinny everything down and not fund it properly.
Jim Justice
You have to tackle. Football is not composed of just taking the ball, or clearing the ball, properly, without touching the opponent? No. If you clear the ball and the opponent is in the middle of it… I feel sorry for the opponent!
Davinson Sanchez
There are a lot of myths about fat loss, and I wanted to explain how to do it properly, without obsessing over silly fads.
Chloe Madeley
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don’t say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.
Bill McCartney
If we don’t start representing women properly on screen now, we’re never going to change our opinion of them as a society.
Sophie Rundle
We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.
Jacob Zuma
I did ‘Red Riding,’ which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we’re in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it’s just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.
James Marsh
Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change al

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be properly restricted.
Dominic Grieve
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
To do a band properly does kind of mean you don’t really get to do anything else.
James Murphy
If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan
I eat properly and work out a lot.
Raashi Khanna
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas Sydenham
My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.
Supriya Pathak
I don’t like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can’t get those out. And you have to rewash them.
Britt Robertson
With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them – with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the ‘reasoned judgment’ of a bare majority of this Court – we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.
Antonin Scalia
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading… it’s a very, very powerful tool.
Gary Wright
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.
Bryan Adams
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.
Michael Ignatieff
We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA – the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies – to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Thomas Couture
The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there’s no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that’s not right.
Fred DeLuca
I’m married to a nurse, and she is really, really ardent that – in screenplays or movies that I’ve worked on, that all the medical aspects be properly presented. I think that filmmakers ought to be respectful of all fields and not just be lazy and put nonsense in movies because most people won’t know the difference.
Scott Derrickson
I’m optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it’s about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I’m physically active and devout – just not as Buddhistic as she was.
George Takei
My daughter is 12 weeks old and I’ve been in a training camp for 10 weeks. So I haven’t held her properly and been out pushing the pram, doing the little things. But when I’m slugging it out and things are getting tough I just think, ‘everything is for the kids.’
Rocky Fielding
We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
Alain de Botton
I’m going to the gym and really taking care of myself and trying to stay fit, eating properly.
Sondra Radvanovsky
If I’d done ‘Top Gear,’ I would have had to have left my job, and I’ve got the best job in the world. To do ‘Top Gear’ and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can’t. I don’t want to leave work.
Guy Martin
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
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person’s mind and have an atmosphere about them.
Sophie Hannah
It’s kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
Joe Bastianich
My family owned a gelateria business, so as a kid, I would always design ice cream cones. If you want to transform a shoe from design into a properly wearable product, however, you need technical knowledge. So I worked for four years inside a local shoe company.
Giuseppe Zanotti
It’s properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
Rafe Spall
There won’t be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.
Mariano Rajoy
We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others.
Kamal Haasan
If it is properly done, the ‘as told to’ autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.
Albert Murray
Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.
Debbie Ford
Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
Iain Duncan Smith
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
Iris Apfel
All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don’t try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don’t get along.
Brandi Glanville
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan
For me personally, it is one of my biggest priorities to build a sustainable city that can respond properly to the climate change.
Park Won-soon
Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you’ve gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.
Bob Stoops
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle – and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
Michael Merzenich
It’s high time to address research into medical marijuana. Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the weeds on the effectiveness, safety, dosing, administration, and quality of medical marijuana.
Orrin Hatch
Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There’s nothing evil about how they’re traded, how they’re accounted for, and how they’re financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.
James Chanos
I love breakfast. Well, I just like food. I’m properly into my food. It comes from my father. If we go anywhere, we like to look up the best restaurants.
Ellie Bamber
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one’s audience.
D. W. Griffith
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
Angus Deaton
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
B. F. Skinner