Top 512 Proposed Quotes & Sayings

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.'

There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinz? Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in any way that we could up to and including providing them weapons, so they could fight off Russian incursions into Ukraine.That was the proposed plank in the Republican Party platform. The [Donald] Trump folks didn`t care about anything else.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Since 2000, I have proposed changing the Constitution so that our popular vote decides the presidency.

The Catholic community, with many others, has long worked for this new commitment on global health and debt relief (President George W. Bushs proposed $15 billion Global AIDS initiative). I hope that Congress will now appropriate the money needed to make this legislation a reality, and that the U.S. government will press for strengthening the debt relief program along the lines proposed by this legislation.

I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

My husband proposed to me on the beach using candy.

I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

At this time, it's all still proposed.

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

I have been proposed to a few times. I haven't counted how many, a little bit more than one hand?

I think that if your tenure case depends on your proving what you thought was a mathematical theorem and the proposed theorem turns out to be false just before your tenure decision, and you want to get tenure very badly, there is a sense in which it's perfectly understandable and reasonable of you to wish the proposed theorem were true and provable, even if it's logically impossible for it to be.

To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

A fan proposed to me several times.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

I have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

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

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

I especially remain firmly opposed to a nuclear Iran and will review all related policies and proposed actions from that position.

Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle, there seems to be different tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling back of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.

I was in a steak house once, and someone proposed. I was so embarrassed. The woman started crying, and I thought, 'She was just proposed to in a steak house - I'd be crying, too.'

Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

He proposed, in London, in 2002.

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

The FM proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund to ensure better flow of funds to students.

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green New Deal for Cities, as my friend Cori Bush has proposed. And we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

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

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.