Proficiently Knowledgeable Quotes

#1. There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

Joseph Hume

#2. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

Hal Holbrook

#3. Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.

Mark Batterson

#4. The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

Edward Irving

#5. It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

Cesare Pavese

#6. I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.

Donald Sutherland

#7. We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are slow. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother.

Sean Covey

#8. Basically, I live to do gigs.

Amy Winehouse