#proposal

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

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) ↗

— Jane Austen

#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

Dear Miss Independent, I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools. You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren't ready. God, I hope you're ready now. Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love you every day for the rest of my life. —Jack ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#proposal #life

We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#marriage-proposal #sookie-stackhouse #love

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#love #marriage #proposals #rhett-butler #love

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#marriage #marriage-proposal #love

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me ↗

— Winston Churchill

#marriage-proposal #marriage

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#accept #could #even #honour #leaders

My proposal happens to be very mainstream. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#mainstream #proposal #very

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

#anything #book #completely #confused #even