Propose Quotes

• Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

  William Faulkner

  Two, Long, People

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Summer, Military, Fighting

  Dispatch from Spotsylvania (Va.) Court House, 11 May 1864.

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Business

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Privilege, Congress

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

  John Clare

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Humility, Exercise, Power

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.416, Penguin

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• Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Perfect

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

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• I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mean, Government, Law

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

  Jean Rostand

  Reality, Choices, Taste

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

  Richard Rorty

  Doe, World, Causes

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Giving, People

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.67, Baker Books

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• Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

  Julio Cortazar

  Eden, Paradise, Nostalgia

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Bombs

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Moving, Unconditional Love, Surrender

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Mitch Daniels

  Years, Income, Citizens

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• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  Barbara Jordan

  Promise, Politics, Produce

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• 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.

  Francois Hollande

  Years, Law, Constitution

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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

  Paul Ryan

  Reform, Debt, Budgets

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