Top 289 Proposal Quotes & Sayings

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

If a proposal doesn't prove out as expected when we run it, sometimes we change the model.

I understand that a lot of people can't connect with my music, because it's a radical proposal and a personal proposal. There will be people who can connect with it, and many that can't.

I oppose any proposal for the federal government to build and operate a nationwide 5G network.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

About that proposal, cupcake..." Morelli

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one`s religion.

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

I think Shidzo Abe's proposal may be the only way to achieving our goal.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy proposals.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.

I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

A no deal Brexit is a proposal so damaging to our future that it cannot be accepted.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

A good financial proposal doesn't mean you'll get to do a lot of things. There are times when you have to think about your career.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Many governments have faced the proposal of One Rank One Pension but no solution has been found yet.

One minute I was with Tottenham, the next came a proposal from China. I took a step back to think about it and decided it was the right time to move.

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

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 always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their proposals. They've written up their proposal, long-form, and often what this does is then set up a sort of serial deal, where the whole book can essentially be reduced back to the size of the original proposal!

The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted.

The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.