Favors Quotes - Page 19

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

The gods favor the bold.

Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

I do not favor the gag order.

I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.