Top 380 Propose Quotes & Sayings

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

If you’re going to criticize, you should propose.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

I propose to build for eternity.

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 propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'

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

Nikki is obsessed with France and its culture, so it made total sense to propose there.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start addressing inequality by paying reparations for slavery. I'm well aware that in a society where war and discrimination are now almost entirely normalised, both options sound like madness.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

As I've said all along, I don't make promises I can't keep, and I won't propose things we can't pay for.

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

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

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

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

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

Ant was the only person who knew I was going to propose.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

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

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

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

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

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

If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.

When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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

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

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

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

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

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

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.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

When I propose, angel, trust me, you’ll know it.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

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.

If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they wouldn't propose a reform: they would do nothing.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

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

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

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

I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

I don't order laws, I propose them.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.