Famous Quotes & Sayings

Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U.S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U.S. referral.

Jane Smiley

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

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.

Ayn Rand

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

Bertrand Russell

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

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

J. Reuben Clark

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

John Adams

My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts

Calvin Coolidge

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Calvin Coolidge

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Charles Kingsley

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.

Blake Edwards

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

Bill Hybels

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

Earl Long

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

Edward Kennedy

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

Edward McKendree Bounds

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

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.

David Wallace

My hope is that they would be convicted and put behind bars. They'll never stop doing this unless they get help. We're not doing them any favors by letting them be free.

Obviously, the Guidant board favors the certainty associated with J&J's offer. They've basically gotten the FTC to sign off with J&J. They just need shareholder approval.

Demosthenes

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Edward Abbey

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Evgeny Morozov

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.

A. R. Ammons

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

The decision is utterly mind-boggling despite all the evidence which favors the defendant.

The Democrats won't do themselves any favors if they give Roberts a free pass. They have to put down some markers, contrast their beliefs with Roberts' beliefs, demonstrate where they stand, and frame the debate over the long-term direction of the court.

Agatha Christie

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Harvey V. Fineberg

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.