Favors Quotations

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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

I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

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

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.

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

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

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

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

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.

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 you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

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

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

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

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.

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

We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

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

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.

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

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

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

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much. This makes my siblings mad because they think she favors me. I don't care because she probably does!

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.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

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

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

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

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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.

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

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 so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

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

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

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

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

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.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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

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

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

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

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

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

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.