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Propose Quotes

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

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

"'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

"Orlando Furioso". Poem by Ludovico Ariosto. Canto XLVI, stanza 35, 1532.

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

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

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

"The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William A. Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.192

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

"Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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

Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.73, Penguin

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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

Richelle Mead (2008). “Succubus Dreams: Urban Fantasy”, p.113, Random House

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

Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA