Andpropriety Quotes & Sayings

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes
as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons. — Frank Smith

Possessiveness was hot. "Go — Kristen Ashley

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. — Ambrose Bierce

What is worse than doing evil, is being evil" (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that "(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie" (Ethics, p.67). — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?' — Stephen Moyer

He didn't hold the door open, instead letting it fly back and knock me in the face.
"Thanks," I muttered, rubbing my nose.
"You're welcome," he said, my sarcasm lost on him as always. — A Meredith Walters

Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical. — Dean Burk

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it ... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there. — Charles Laughton

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions. — Ludwig Von Mises

Because you're my favorite groupie, remember." Brandon Knight — Bella Jeanisse

Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere. — Bob Barr