Welcome to our collection of proposal quotes, where words become the vessel of love, commitment, and hope. Whether you’re on the cusp of popping the question, reminiscing about your own proposal, or simply seeking inspiration, this compilation offers a myriad of sentiments to encapsulate the magic of this cherished moment.
Proposals mark significant milestones in our lives, symbolizing the courage to take a leap of faith and the profound desire to intertwine destinies with another. From grand gestures under starlit skies to intimate moments shared over a cup of coffee, each proposal is as unique as the love it celebrates. Through these quotes, we invite you to delve into the depths of emotion, relishing in the anticipation, joy, and vulnerability that accompany the act of proposing.
Here, you’ll find a treasure trove of words crafted by poets, authors, and romantics alike, each capturing the essence of love and commitment in its purest form. So, whether you’re crafting the perfect proposal speech, seeking solace in the beauty of love, or simply reveling in the magic of the moment, let these quotes serve as a beacon of inspiration on your journey of love. Below, you’ll find an array of heartfelt sentiments awaiting your discovery.
In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security. Russ Carnahan
Sadly, the President’s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country’s severe fiscal problems. Carl Levin
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don’t take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that’s exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. Sarah Palin
When you’re governor, you’ve got to step up to the plate; you’ve got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That’s the requirement. And then you’ve got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points. J. B. Pritzker
Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for. Barry Gardiner
I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie. Jennifer Egan
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one. Bill Ayers
Consensus isn’t just about agreement. It’s about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it. David Graeber
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. Madeleine Stowe
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. Elliott Abrams
The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it’s got bipartisan support. Erik Paulsen
I think Bush’s immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached. Peter Brimelow
I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn’t even occurred to me, and I hadn’t written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand
My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded. Ben Bernanke
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection. Luc Montagnier
The proposal for how we were going to assist the Leave.E.U. campaign was to undertake the same type of research that we were undertaking in the United States. Brittany Kaiser
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
City’s boss and owner came with a very good proposal. They showed me that City has the ambition to be one of the biggest clubs in the world. This made it easy to make the move. Money was never important. Carlos Tevez
A no deal Brexit is a proposal so damaging to our future that it cannot be accepted. Dominic Grieve
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. Edward Grey
Our ACE proposal will reduce CO2 approximately the same levels that the Clean Power Plan would have, if it had been implemented. And we’re reducing CO2 from our CAFE standards. Andrew R. Wheeler
I am not married, no. I wasn’t really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture. Miranda Hart
I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. Teri Garr
If a proposal doesn’t prove out as expected when we run it, sometimes we change the model. Edgar Fiedler
I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck. Sandra Bullock
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. Robert Kiyosaki
I’ve always wanted to get married and have a family, but I’m not the girl who sat down and planned out her wedding, her dress, or how everything would go with the proposal. Rachel Lindsay
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience. Sean Brady
If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law. Lee Zeldin
But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. Ferdinand Lassalle
Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution. Tipper Gore
When Gingrich attacked CNN’s John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters. Robert Dallek
A good financial proposal doesn’t mean you’ll get to do a lot of things. There are times when you have to think about your career. Paulinho
Romney said that his tax reform proposal is ‘very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.’ How I wish it were. Erskine Bowles
Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret. Jeff Sessions
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. Abu Bakar Bashir
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. Arthur Peacocke
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. Ai Weiwei
I don’t know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal.’ T. J. Miller
In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost. Kaka
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
I oppose any proposal for the federal government to build and operate a nationwide 5G network. Ajit Pai
Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked up they can’t commit more crimes and law-abiding citizens are safer. Right? Actually, wrong. Charlie Kirk
The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it’s bad politics. It’s bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it. John Delaney
Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‘Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.’ Dwayne Johnson
Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support. Carrie Lam
Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President’s budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful. Solomon Ortiz
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days. Laura Hillenbrand
You don’t often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director – that’s easy to say yes to. Tom Stoppard
My proposal happens to be very mainstream. Noam Chomsky
We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal. Grace Napolitano
The lower income individuals, under any Republican proposal, at least that I have seen, are real losers in the framework because there is not enough subsidy, not enough assistance, for them to realistically participate in the market. Particularly if you halt or rollback the Medicaid expansion, which is for the lowest income workers. Kathleen Sebelius
Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty. Cory Gardner
A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of ‘payment for priority’ is what started the net neutrality fight. Marvin Ammori
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet. James Fenton
Romance isn’t measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don’t ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness – so don’t ever make being viral your goal. Ann Voskamp
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. Grace Napolitano
The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures. Hugo Chavez
I really detest movies like ‘Indecent Proposal’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that’s such a small part of it. Laura Kightlinger
If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don’t need a ‘fast-track’ but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits. Jeff Sessions
You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. Heidi Hammel
I wasn’t expecting a proposal from Aamir that night, especially when he had waited long hours for my shoot to get over and I too was drained after giving back-to-back scenes that involved portraying a lot of mental traumas and crying. As I came out of my shot, he stood in front of me, went down on his knees and proposed marriage. Sanjeeda Sheikh
Women would rather go to their daughter’s piano recital than stay all night at work, working on a proposal, because they’re less ambitious. Gavin McInnes
Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt. Eric Cantor
Many tax experts say a key element to any fundamental overhaul is getting rid of certain deductions for businesses – the ‘special-interest giveaways that are masked as tax breaks,’ as House Republicans describe many of them in their own proposal. James B. Stewart
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. Barack Obama
I would point out that Japan’s proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. Hideki Tojo
Here’s a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test. Eric Liu
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. Mike Rogers
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations – not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations – is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center. Cyrus Vance
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year – a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren’t required to do so. Matt Gonzalez
Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America. Bernie Sanders
People have described my proposal to ban smartphones for kids as mad, but why would we want children to have unsupervised access to the Internet? I predict most of my ‘far-out’ ideas will be the norm before long. Steve Hilton
No self-respecting country – especially one with our clout and proud history – should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity. Priti Patel
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support. Pankaj Mishra
It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration’s proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. Greg Walden
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. Al Gore
The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn’t really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. Gordon Gould
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans. Mitt Romney
Like every girl, I had dreams of marriage, but I got victimized in a cheating scandal. When the proposal came through the family, everyone was happy. I had started talking to him with the consent of both families and after a week, all of a sudden, we got to know that I wasn’t even speaking with the person whose picture had been given to us. Shamna Kasim
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn’t really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I’d want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story… I developed a proposal and the characters of ‘Gossip Girl’ for my job. Cecily von Ziegesar
If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you’re writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers are thinking, ‘How can I get my proposal into this guy’s speech?’ I was just thinking, ‘What does he want to say?’ Ben Rhodes
We’ve got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. Jennifer Granholm
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form. Shakira
The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept. Carolyn Maloney
The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her. Drew Seeley
The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an extreme proposal, and I won’t tolerate it. Ryan Zinke
The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out. P. J. O’Rourke
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. Virgil
I’ve had fans do some pretty awesome things… I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds… and I’ve had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother’s ring; I’ve gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool. Lilly Singh
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. Eliot Spitzer
Liverpool have always shown a great warmth to me, so when they came to me with a proposal, I did not need to think twice to renew the contract. I have always been looked after very well by this football club, and I am very happy at this football club, so I didn’t even have to think about it. Philippe Coutinho
The fine print in the President’s Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut. Mark Dayton
While I have strongly and consistently supported the Clean Power Plan, and continue to do so, I cannot and will not support a proposal for a cap-and-trade system. Chris Gibson
Let me go to Clinton’s new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they’re doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. Russell Means
That doesn’t necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward. John Podesta
In all seriousness, I don’t get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is. Julie Klausner
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest. Laura Hillenbrand
Is this a proposal? I’m married now, you know. Rod Steiger