Top 25 Proffer Quotes

#1. Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Proffer Quotes #11044
#2. I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.

Werner Heisenberg

Proffer Quotes #77295
#3. Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it'
'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?'
'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

James Boswell

Proffer Quotes #231742
#4. As modern tyrannies are swept away (and every honest heart delights), the quick-thinking servants of the world's great powers still proffer plans to intervene, to jostle, scheme and sponsor factions that they barely understand.

Catherine Merridale

Proffer Quotes #329861
#5. No, Colonel Kota replied, stepping backwards and flipping open his Kuomintang cigarette case to proffer another cigarette

Richard Flanagan

Proffer Quotes #360728
#6. What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

Mohith Agadi

Proffer Quotes #505675
#7. You know how when you're reminded of things, and you can't shut it off quick
enough? Like, before it slips the knife in and twists? Like that.

Lili St. Crow

Proffer Quotes #526835
#8. All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Robert Collier

Proffer Quotes #605525
#9. It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.

Arundhati Roy

Proffer Quotes #699541
#10. Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Joanna Baillie

Proffer Quotes #816408
#11. China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

Naoto Kan

Proffer Quotes #889518
#12. For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

Grandmaster Flash

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#13. When I was 5 years old, hanging out with my friends who were all older than me, like 8 or 9, I was joking around like, 'Yeah, when I'm 20 that's a perfect age to go pro.' That's what I had in my head. Then I turn pro at 13. It's all been a mystery and its all been awesome.

Ryan Sheckler

Proffer Quotes #1015224
#14. Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?

Orhan Pamuk

Proffer Quotes #1038999
#15. Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

H.L. Mencken

Proffer Quotes #1107716
#16. Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

John Sculley

Proffer Quotes #1221300
#17. The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Proffer Quotes #1235905
#18. Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Proffer Quotes #1358988
#19. My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.

Jody Hedlund

Proffer Quotes #1633291
#20. Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Manoj Arora

Proffer Quotes #1637349
#21. Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

Proffer Quotes #1637639
#22. Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

William S. Burroughs

Proffer Quotes #1756490
#23. There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

Michael Isikoff

Proffer Quotes #1775787
#24. But since we've been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative curiosities of my day, the way
a cat might lay mice at your feet: the small, humble offerings that couples proffer after foraging in
separate backyards.

Lionel Shriver

Proffer Quotes #1805607
#25. There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Richard Jefferies

Proffer Quotes #1859757

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