#propose

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#dispose #disposes #dumping #government #must

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#am #another #because #could #first

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#ban #bravo #came #complete #countries

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #convictions #dialogue #dominate #however

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

#dispose #fools #men #propose #wise

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together. ↗

— Hillary Scott

#beautiful #been #blessed #chris #close

Phillipa, my heart, my blood, my everything, will you for God’s and my sake marry me? ↗

— Suzanne Enoch

#propose-marriage #love