#appropriate

I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cry #crying #death #funeral #inappropriate

Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, within the circle of those who are experienced and advanced in years, the young person declaims ethical generalities. Young people will again and again find themselves in a situation that is so irritating, astounding, and incomprehensible to them that their word falls on deaf ears, while the word of an older person is heard and has weight even though its content is no different at all. It will be a sign of maturity or immaturity whether this experience leads them to understand that what is at stake here is not the stubborn self-satisfaction of old age, or the anxious effort to keep youth in their place, but the pereservation or violation of an essential ethical law. Ethical discourse needs authorization, which youth are simply not able to bestow upon themselves, even if they speak out of the purest pathos of their ethical conviction. Ethical discourse does not merely depend on the correct content of what is said, but also on the speaker being authorized to say it. Its validity depends not only on what is said, but also on who says it. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#appropriateness #ethics #validity #wisdom #youth

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#annoy #anything #appropriate #asking #friend

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#appropriate #case #clearly #different #different reasons

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#balance #claims #competing #consideration #deserve

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#against #cbs #cbs news #dan #dan rather

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? ↗

— Buddha

#behavior #between #clinging #debris #each

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#appropriate #done #expect #get #government

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#everything #fantastic #get #inappropriate #just

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#appropriate #because #believed #billy #billy graham