Appropriate Quotes

“Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“If there is a word that should be retired from use in the service of women's expression, health, well-being, and equality, it is appropriate - a sloppy, mushy word that purports to convey some important moral essence but in reality is just a policing term used to regulate our language, appearance and demands. It's a control word.

We are done with control.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“What worked well in the past may not be relevant or appropriate in the presence.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“It is easy to find from the statistics pertaining to crime rate in a country that crimes against women are lowest in Islamic countries where women are dressed modestly and covered in burka (veil) in public places. Appropriate dressing, particularly in public places and before strangers can to some extent prevent crimes against women.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“There was no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins

“Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.”
― Mildred Blaxter

“Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“I recently cleared up my Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). The condition is real, it has a sound foundation as to why it occurs in the human, and can be cleared up by taking the appropriate steps.”
― Steven Magee

“Even Hazel had stopped telling Neylan that wearing dragons was inappropriate.”
― Lea Doué, The Firethorn Crown

“When you understand that there is nothing really good or bad in this world in the absolute sense, you focus your attention on balancing everything in the appropriate manner rather than craving for something and discarding the rest. A happy person, like a healthy person, takes a balanced diet of everything that nature presents to him.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The incremental value of wealth declines as we become richer. Yet people keep on accumulating it. They think that more is better. Hence, when they fail to get happiness even after becoming wealthy, instead of looking for the appropriate reason for their unhappiness, they blame lack of greater wealth for the lack of happiness and work even harder to make more money with the hope of buying happiness with money.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“When people get sickly, the inexperienced go to the doctor for prescriptions, whereas the wise read self treatment books, change their lifestyle and take the appropriate supplements.”
― Steven Magee

“Appropriate to the occasion" means choosing what to wear based on what you know is appropriate to wear for each given situation.”
― Bethel Grove, Beyond Your Wardrobe: A Biblical Approach to Understanding Modesty, Why We Wear Clothes, and How to Adorn Ourselves Appropriately

“Now I'll have no excuse to touch you inappropriately in an appropriate setting.'

'I'm sure you'll find another way,' Coulton remarked.

'That is true,' Casteel bit his lower lip. 'I am very inventive.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire