Quotes and Sayings About Favors
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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