Favitorum Quotes

#1. 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.]

Plautus

#2. Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Jeff Jordan

#3. Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

Rudy Giuliani

#5. Love life, love who you are!!!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Wallace Stegner

#7. And there, in the midst of blinding orange, yellow, and white flames, our forever begins.

A.G. Howard

#8. The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Chanakya

#9. You shall love your crooked neighbor / With your crooked heart..

John Green

#10. I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home.

Mindy Kaling

#11. Julius rose to his feet. The towel dropped, showering cut brown hair over Monna Alessandra's elegant tiles. His hair, finely tailored, clung to a thick-boned face with slanting eyes and a blunt profile which would have looked well on a coin. Tobie, who had almost no hair, gazed at him sadly.

Dorothy Dunnett

#12. Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

#13. I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

Barbara Hershey

#14. You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Michael Reagan

#15. I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

Greg Maddux