Quotes About Proposal

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya. Can you imagine? I told him I thought he was a lunatic, and he said he would live in hope. Alosha laughed for ten minutes without stopping except to cough when I told her . . .

JANE," LAURENCE SAID, "will you marry me?" "Why, no, dear fellow," she said, looking up in surprise from the chair where she was drawing on her boots. "It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered," she added, and standing up kissed him heartily, before she put on her coat.

I pointed to her engagement ring. "I don't know who the idiot is, but I hope he knows he's the luckiest man in the world.

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes! Cue straitjacket.

Make love, he suggested. Make love with me. I'm not in the right mood for love. Let me try to persuade you.

Howard was actually the one who wanted to get married. From the second that he mentioned it, I was all in. I was so excited.

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came. "Where?" she asked. That shut him up.

All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you...!

In London, Jean Monnet – who had by now risen to be head of the Anglo-French Coordination Committee, launched a daring, last-minute emergency plan: he wanted France and Great Britain to become one. A joint pool of shipping space had already been set up, just as in the First World War, but this time Monnet wanted to go much further. In a memorandum of less than five pages he proposed that the two countries become united: their armies, their

No matter how exciting, new, original, or creative you personally believe your proposal is, always remember that these can be exactly the characteristics people translate to mean risk and unpredictability. Emphasize your proposal's attributes that meet personal needs, not those characteristics that emphasize change and unpredictability.

If adopting DevOps could enable us, through better management and increased operational excellence, to halve that waste and redeploy that human potential into something that's five times the value (a modest proposal), we could create $2.6 trillion of value per year.

This is not an heirloom," Alessandro said with grim sincerity. "I didn't take it from my family. I designed it for you and had it made. Nobody else has ever worn it and if you say no, nobody ever will.

I'm formally proposing. The first time it didn't take. Kill me, somebody. Curran! Get Up. People are looking at us.

I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.

Me propuso matrimonio al conducirme al aeropuerto. Le contesté lo que se espera de una respetable dama madura: De casarse, nada, pero si estás dispuesto a viajar con frecuencia a California, podemos ser amantes, ¿qué te parece? Pobre hombre... ¿qué me podía contestar? Que sí, claro.

In January 1999, I proposed an initiative to the Music Industry Forum which I called Communities In Tune. Its aim was to bring community centres to the Internet generation.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.