Favors Quotes - Page 21

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

Forget favors given; remember those received.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Do your kids a favor: Love your spouse.

Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.

Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.

The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.