Favors Quotes - Page 5

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing - everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

Live life as if its rigged in your favor.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.

Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.