Favors Quotes - Page 8

Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one." "Fondue?" he asked hopefully.

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." And I think that says it the way I believe it.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Reality favors symmetry.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.