You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
The above proposition is occasionally useful.
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.
I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable
When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history. . . The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years. . . There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation. . . The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median. " Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements;. . . But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.