They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.
When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false. . . . For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!
I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [. . . ] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.