Proposes Quotes

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Robert Kennedy

Life, Free, Means

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

Good, Accept, Few

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, Dumping, Dispose

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Peace, Religion, Help

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Jean Rostand

Reality, Away, Often

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Helmut Jahn

Good, Himself, Engineer

Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Today, Human, Effort

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland

Government, Care, Rich

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
J. B. Priestley

Done, Words, She

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Angela Carter

Women, Men, Woman

Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Minna Antrim

We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.
Gray Davis

Nothing, Another, Public

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.
Helen Suzman

Work, Enough, America

Man proposes, and God disposes.
Ludovico Ariosto

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Ariel Durant

Change, Valuable, Radical

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Julius Sterling Morton

Future, Past, While

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