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Quotes About Proposal

Hank was initially noncommittal. He knew that he and his team would have to lead the effort to develop a legislative proposal and sell it to Congress.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Going to Congress with a proposal only to have it turned down would devastate market confidence.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
In Hank's proposal, this broad role would fall to the Fed,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
But Bush's proposal to add private accounts to Social Security went nowhere, as did his comprehensive immigration plans.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they wouldn't propose a reform: they would do nothing.
~ Tim Griffin
Was Prince Philip in love when he proposed to Elizabeth? At the time, he was a relatively penniless prince, with a rackety family and no home to call his own.
~ Gyles Brandreth
When Elbridge Gerry proposed in the Convention that no standing army exceed three thousand men, Washington is supposed to have made a countermotion that "no foreign enemy should invade the United States at any time, with more than three thousand troops.
~ Gordon S. Wood
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
The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.
~ Barry Gardiner
Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
~ Francis Alys
She remembered the lead ammunition in her pocket and offered it to him. "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, "They belong to you, Miss Bennet.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
You are the love of my life, Elizabeth Bennet. So I ask you now…" A brief pause separates these words from his next. "Half in anguish… half in hope…" He ends his speech with the glorious words Lizzy has been wishing to hear spoken from Fitzwilliam Darcy, "Will you do me the great honor of taking me for your husband?" Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
The government of Brazil had publicly proposed brokering a settlement between the United States and Cuba; Raskin, never afraid to speak his mind, suggested that the White House consider the offer. "Oh, no," Bundy said. "It'll take just one detachment and he'll be out of there.
~ Seymour M. Hersh
The way of Jesus is not a proposal for how to take over the nation-state and make it Christian. It is, rather, a lesson in learning not to take over--to be a community where we find a new way of life by giving ourselves for others.
~ Shane Claiborne
I'm okay," he reassured her before he could say something stupid. Like "marry me.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Marry me." Hiding his immense relief, Lock replied, "Shouldn't we get to know each other better?" "What else is there to know?" she asked, her eyes gazing hungrily on his mouth
~ Shelly Laurenston
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
~ Georgette Heyer
Miss Tallant, I perceive that it is useless to try to make polite small talk with you. I shall get immediately to the point. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife? Henry's jaw dropped. Miss Tallant? Your wife? she asked faintly. Yes, my wife. I have taken you by surprise, I see. I mistakenly thought you had more fortitude, ma'am. Should I have paved the way more carefully by falling on my knees in front of you and declaring undying love and devotion? I can still do so, if you wish.
~ Mary Balogh
Then marry me, he said . . . You like me, do you not, Elizabeth? We could have a good friendship, I believe, a good life together. I have enough love for both of us. I should never demand more than you are prepared to give.
~ Mary Balogh
Is there any chance at all that you still feel— I do. So do I, she said. They had understood each other perfectly. I love you. So do I. I love you too. Will you marry me? Yes.
~ Mary Balogh
Stu asked me to marry him
~ Mary Downing Hahn
It's staring into one of those green screens, doing corporate budgets, that I notice how high salaries rise in marketing. Also, they spend hundreds of thousands on trade shows each year, and my product-manager girlfriend informs me that nobody pays attention to the budgets. So in the company library, I read a bunch of trade magazines and essentially retype what they said needs to happen into a proposal for managing that budget. Poof, I'm a marketeer.
~ Mary Karr
And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then-- he turned swiftly to look into her fade-- when can we get married?
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
he boldly rejected the Bolshevik Lenin's proposal for complete land nationalization as well as a Russian Menshevik call for land municipalization.
~ Stephen Kotkin