Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Baltasar Gracian

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Abraham Lincoln

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

We're not doing any favors by having too many elk out there.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

We did them some favors on defense. That's what happens when you play on your heels instead of on your toes. We made some adjustments. Hopefully, we'll learn from those adjustments. We've got to.

There are other players who could be here who aren't here because of their positions in the league. To get some favors in return ? that means a lot to send those players back. This is a time we could do it.

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Amanda Hocking

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

Daniel Johnston

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

Doug Stanhope

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

Daniel Berrigan

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

Angela Lansbury

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call

Alexander Pope

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

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Danny Wallace

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

Dan Rather

In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.

Amartya Sen

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.

He favors traffic improvements when it pertains to Utopia, but he opposes them when they pertain to the tribe.

Brian Mullan

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

The presidential-nomination system favors the unemployed or the underemployed over the fully employed.

Catullus

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Cecelia Ahern

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Calvin Trillin

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.