Favor Quotes

#1. When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Don't ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing- everyone needs somebody to help them along when they're first starting out.

Allison Janney

#3. Smalls, my parents' house is pretty big. The odds are more in favor of a burglar sneaking around than your boy-boy. I can't let you take that risk alone. If you're gonna get murdered, then I'm gonna get murdered with you." She shrugged. "It's what any good friend would do.

Cole Gibsen

#4. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.

Jake Byrne

#5. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Erich Auerbach

#6. I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. Parental behavioral factors - including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor "self-directed child behavior," and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages - influence a child's development two to three times more than any form of child care.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

#9. Shane, listen, I need a favor."
"Sure, anything." She was the only woman in the world who could draw those words from his lips.

Elisabeth Naughton

#10. Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.

Joel Osteen

#11. There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Hale White

#12. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.

William R. Cutrer

#13. 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.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#14. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

#15. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. Do me a favor, my people, and stick your suffering heritage up your suffering ass_ I happen also to be a human being!

Philip Roth

#17. But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents.

Erik Larson

#18. Christ comes, and his very coming demonstrates that God's favor rests on us, and that peace, peace, peace is available to us all. Shalom. Everything we need to live whole lives, to live wholly, to live holy.

Jane Rubietta

#19. Create in them a relentless reliance on you and your provisions of favor in all of life. Enable them to be enthralled by you as the giver of all things. Give them exuberant praise and thankfulness at the thought of your glorious name.

Tony Souder

#20. Seek not the favor of the mulititude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant

Bohdi Sanders

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

Max Lucado

#22. I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

#24. Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Jon Meacham

#25. When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Rick Perry

#26. Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

Jorge Luis Borges

#27. We work together. That's it. So I want you to do us both a favor before you think I 'need' to know something. Ask yourself, 'If I were flipping burgers at McDonald's, would I be telling the fucking fry guy this?' If the answer is no, then shut the hell up.

J.R. Ward

#28. Someday you're gonna go stupid for a woman. And when you do, do me this one favor: don't get all caught up in the bullshit that's going on in your head. If it's right, then you put on your fuckin' big-boy pants and you go for it.

Justin Halpern

#29. Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.

Iyanla Vanzant

#30. Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Noam Chomsky

#31. I'm sure the 'I wouldn't fuck a murder conspirator' argument wins over many an internal affairs review board. Bring him in. It'll be in your favor.

Benjamin R. Smith

#32. 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?

John Stossel

#33. Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He finally did go so far out that he couldn't find his way back in, but he did us all a huge favor - he left his music with us.

Des Barres, Pamela

#34. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

Francis Bacon

#35. One's nature comes from within, not from without. The abomination occurs in subverting one's instinct in favor of a rigid code written by others. Trying to force yourself into a role that confounds your spirit will always break you.

Garth Stein

#36. Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

Wiley Blount Rutledge

#37. ...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Bill Bigelow

#38. As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.

Lawrence Lessig

#39. It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor.

Paulo Coelho

#40. They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.

Edward Durell Stone

#41. A true understanding of grace - of God's unmerited favor - always provokes a life of gratitude and obedience.

Anonymous

#42. The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Norman O. Brown

#43. The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Jack Canfield

#44. He who observes one precept, in addition to those which, as originally laid upon him, he has discharged, shall receive favor from above, and is equal to him who has fulfilled the whole law.

Various

#45. When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

Omar Bongo

#46. It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

Ken Jennings

#47. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

John Hodgman

#48. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles

Homer

#49. If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Voltaire

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

Publilius Syrus

#51. Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

Bernie Siegel

#52. Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#54. He's a good man.He's staightforward and he knows exactly what he wants-"
"Yes. You must favor your mother."
She smiled reluctantly at the gentle taunt.

Lisa Kleypas

#55. Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.

Teresa Lo

#56. I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

Scott Adams

#57. Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

James Alan Fox

#58. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

#59. Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

Francis Chan

#60. The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

#61. There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

George Ayittey

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

Baltasar Gracian

#63. The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#64. It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

William Shenstone

#65. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing will become a means for recording chatter.

Nicholas Carr

#66. The boy thought it a strange question. But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem ... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

Bobby Knight

#68. Depressives kill themselves. Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along. I'm

Stephen King

#69. The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. 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.

Rafael Cruz

#71. One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Milton Friedman

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

A.R. Ammons

#73. A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

#74. The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.

Samuel Adams

#75. Somehow the Creator seems to favor those who know precisely what they want and what they do not want.

Napoleon Hill

#76. I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Milton Friedman

#77. When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

Joyce Meyer

#78. You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.

Aesop

#79. The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

Herbert Croly

#80. I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

Wayne Dyer

#81. Yeah, one of the Arum does owe me a favor." A winsome grin appeared. "And his name would be Hunter.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#82. Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Charles De Secondat

#83. When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.

Sunday Adelaja

#84. Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Acton

#85. If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

Joel Osteen

#86. Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

J.B. Morton

#87. It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

Lord Chesterfield

#88. If you work, you will find favor from God and you will become a rich man

Sunday Adelaja

#89. The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'

Timothy Noah

#90. I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Gary Ackerman

#91. When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.

Henry Johnson Jr

#92. I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well ... When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her."
"Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try

Ally Carter

#93. Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

Leigh Hershkovich

#94. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#95. I'm not at an extreme, but I do think that Donald Trump is a self-created creature. But the media has feasted on his spectacle and he wouldn't live without the attention. He's repaid the favor by attacking the press, but that's generated more reactive coverage.

David Folkenflik

#96. A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

Stephen King

#97. A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#98. In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.

Sander Levin

#99. People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model ...

Peter Kinderman

#100. A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Sean Kennedy