Favors Quotes - Page 4

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

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.

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Chance favors those in motion.

Fortune favors the prepared.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.