Favors Quotes

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar) Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

One person can bring favor to many during the storm.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

God himself favors the brave.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.