#proper

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#money #property #men

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#armed #certain #circles #continue #dead

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. ↗

— Tom Courtenay

#actor #business #film #film business #interesting

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#natural #natural resource #only #own #piece

To every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost chamber by some chance reality, some vague fear, some painful hope. The Man of Property, p. 363 ↗

— John Galsworthy

#age

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. ↗

— Mike DeWine

#before #broad #case #judges #need

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.' ↗

— Andrew Dost

#beatles #before #blew #bought #compilation

Property is a nuisance. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#property

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly