#proposition

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #go #hides #how #i

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. ↗

— George M. Cohan

#buried #call #curtain #funny #hurried

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#alive #components #could #doubt #fragmented

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#approximately #been #being #experience #geometry

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#been #candid #clearly #conclusion #consideration

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #phenomenology #proposition #pure #put

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#afford #all day #come #day #does

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#both #christmas #costly #deal #enjoy

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#college #friends #going #got #i