Disfavor Quotes

#1. Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Honore De Balzac

#2. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

Dallin H. Oaks

#4. When I return with her heart, there will be years aplenty for all of us," she said, eying her sisters' hairy chins and hollow eyes with disfavor. She slipped a scarlet bracelet onto her wrist, in the shape of a small snake with its tail between its jaws.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Edward Bunker

#7. The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred ... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

Ralph Raico

#8. Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

J Harlen Bretz

#9. No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.

Mark Helprin

#10. if we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we have to refrain from doing things that will trigger their disfavor.

William B. Irvine

#11. In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.

Billy Graham

#12. When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Mark Twain

#13. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

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

Samuel Richardson

#15. A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Friedrich Schiller

#16. Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus

#17. People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

Neil Simon

#18. A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

Helen Wills Moody

#20. I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

Elizabeth Olsen

#21. There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

Michael Chabon

#22. The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier.

Joseph Stiglitz

#23. What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Krishna Udayasankar

#24. LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your head you have to go out of your mind" "You are a God, act like one"

Timothy Leary

#25. From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#26. Q: What's black, white and hard? A: A test paper.

Donald Frank

#27. Eliminate your doubts because doors mysteriously love to welcome the minds without doubts and open themselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan