Favors Quotes - Page 11

Fortune, that favors fools.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar) Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.