Propose Quotes

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: "I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people."

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

I'll propose anything where I can make a buck.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense starting with Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.