Proposition Quotes

273 quotes by 242 authors

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of… — Dorothea Brande
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition. — Dennis Gabor
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street,… — Gatewood Galbraith
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist… — Max Nordau
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to… — Henry Franklin Floyd
Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule… — Catharine Macaulay
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste… — Molly Ivins
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth… — Isaac Watts
There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad… — Larry Hite
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation… — Alfred North Whitehead
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply,… — Ronald Knox
Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny. — Bryant H. McGill
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose… — Catharine Cox Miles
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution. — Robert S. Kaplan
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is… — George Michael
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory… — Kenneth Waltz

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