#proper

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#forever #irreplaceable #killed #lives #moment

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#any #asked #compulsion #especially #glad

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#down #elaborate #erected #everything #get

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#billed #few #filled #forms #heirs

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ↗

— William Shenstone

#bear #country #foreign #increasing #love

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#alone #ask #bananas #come #creatures

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

I'm tired of being considered property. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#considered #i #property #tired

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

#back #critical #debt #deficit #down