Favors Quotations | Page 4

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

I hope everything works in our favor. The show ["Are We There Yet?"] is cool. It's family fare. We ain't aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we're making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.

Gov. Henry favors electronic filing, but he will reserve judgment until he has an opportunity to review the final legislation.

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.

I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

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

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

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.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.

People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.

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

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I’m absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.

We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they’re not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)

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)

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

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

I do not favor the gag order.

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

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

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.]

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

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

Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

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

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

Chance favors those who are prepared.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their quality of search services.

The kids are a little antsy. They want to play somebody real bad. ... The Cape didn't do us any favors giving us a bye the first week. In some ways, having extra practice time is good for a young team ... but the girls now are getting a little punchy.

Their legislation actually creates a singles penalty that I believe will be the subject of further debate ... their amendment lopsidedly favors those at the very top of the economic scale at the expense of the middle class,

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.