Proficiency In English Quotes & Sayings

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. — Douglas Wilson

Contentment makes poor men rich,
Discontent makes rich men poor. — Benjamin Franklin

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. — Rand Paul

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship. — Linda Chavez

Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system. — Bernie Sanders

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth? — Alex Berenson

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal. — Ryan Sheckler

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a problem. If you're in the humanities or social sciences, there is no doubt that it is a handicap for you. — Henry Rosovsky

However we assess the relief of the siege of Orleans and the subsequent successes in the Loire Valley, the military proficiency of the French shocked the English to the point that French victory now seemed almost inevitable. If the English had learned that the French had new materiel or a brilliant new commander, they might have been able to devise counter procedures. But they had underestimated everything, from the loyalty evoked by Joan's leadership at Orleans to the fresh resolve of the men who knew her. In a way she also stood for something like a principle of minimal violence, for although she was always exposed to injury and indeed sustained serious wounds, she never personally harmed an enemy solider. The events of the late spring and early summer of 1929 engendered a new collective spirit among the French. — Donald Spoto

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism. — Caroline Kennedy

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies). — Gloria Steinem

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off. — Salman Rushdie