Proffer'd Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you'll have to make the changes you've always needed.

Orrin Woodward

#5. When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

Carl Honore

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Daley Thompson

#10. I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

Eric Cantona

#11. In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Alexis Bledel

#12. We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art
we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Anais Nin

#13. Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

Morley Safer

#14. There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#15. I would like to make one thing quite clear ... I never explain anything.

Julie Andrews

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

Arundhati Roy

#17. He grinned at Sharpe. "Christ, but this is joy! What would we do for happiness if peace came?" He turned his horse clumsily, rammed his heels back, and whooped as the horse took off. "Let's go get the whores!

Bernard Cornwell

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

Mohith Agadi

#19. No, Colonel Kota replied, stepping backwards and flipping open his Kuomintang cigarette case to proffer another cigarette

Richard Flanagan

#20. 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

#21. In my thoughts forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#22. Oh, he was perfect. An orgasm - just for her - and a compliment. She would bottle him and sell him and make her fortune.

Ruthie Knox

#23. 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

#24. You, woman, are without a doubt the most senseless female I could have picked to fall in love with.

Kat Martin