Favors famous quotes
04-24-2025
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
-- A. R. Ammons -
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.
-- Adam Rex -
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
-- Alan Greenspan -
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...
-- Alice Sebold -
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.
-- Allan Bloom -
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
-- Amelia Barr -
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
-- Anais Nin -
Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
-- Andrew X. Pham -
I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.
-- Anita Alvarez -
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
-- Anita Brookner -
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
-- Ann Coulter -
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
-- Aristotle -
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
-- Aristotle -
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
-- Artur Davis -
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
-- B. B. Warfield -
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
-- Barbara Mertz -
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
-- Bess Streeter Aldrich -
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
-- Blake Edwards -
Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
-- Blind Lemon Jefferson -
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
-- Bob Butterworth -
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
-- Brendan Gill -
I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.
-- Brett Favre -
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
-- Brian Tracy -
If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.
-- Cal Thomas -
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
-- Calvin Trillin -
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
-- Catullus -
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.
-- Charles Kingsley -
The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.
-- Chris Osgood -
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
-- Criss Jami -
In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
-- Dan Rather -
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
-- Daniel Berrigan -
Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.
-- Daniel Johnston -
I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.
-- Danny Wallace -
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
-- David Dreman -
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
-- David Eagleman -
Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.
-- David Sklansky -
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
-- Dick Morris -
With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.
-- Djemal Pasha -
favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
-- Donna Leon -
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
-- Dorothy Parker -
But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
-- Earl Long -
I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
-- Edward Abbey -
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
-- Edward Kennedy -
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor
-- Elbert Guillory -
Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
-- Eliza Leslie -
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
-- Ellen G. White -
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
-- Ellis Peters -
The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
-- Erich Auerbach -
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
-- Ernst Haeckel -
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
-- Fanny Fern -
[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.
-- Florence Prag Kahn -
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
-- Francis Atterbury -
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
-- Frank Robinson -
I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.
-- Frank Vincent -
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
-- Frans de Waal -
Max - "...Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?" Dodsley - "Killed someone again, did we?" Max- "Never before luncheon, Dodsley. It's still early yet.
-- Gaelen Foley -
Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?
-- Gail Carson Levine -
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
-- Garrett Hardin -
I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
-- Gary Ackerman -
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
-- George D. Prentice -
Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
-- George Hickenlooper -
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.
-- Gerhard Schroder -
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
-- Germaine Greer -
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
-- Giovanni Ruffini -
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
-- Golda Meir -
Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
-- Guy Finley -
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
-- H. L. Mencken -
I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I’m not all about frequency. I favor intensity.
-- Halle Berry -
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
-- Hans Kung -
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
-- Harold J. Warner -
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
-- Harold S. Kushner
