Propose
To set forth.
To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
To speak; to converse.
To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
To offer one's self in marriage.
Talk; discourse.
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Propose Quotations
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S. Grant
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
Herman Cain
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
Luigi Pirandello
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 three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Propose Translations
propose in Afrikaans is bied
propose in Dutch is uitloven, bieden, aanbieden
propose in Finnish is ehdottaa
propose in French is proposent, proposons, proposez, proposer
propose in German is vorschlagen
propose in Latin is propono
propose in Portuguese is proponha
propose in Spanish is proponer
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