Favorably Disposed Quotes

#1. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

James Surowiecki

#2. Some of us are more favorably disposed than others.

John McCain

#3. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust ... you owe me awe.

Thomas Harris

#5. I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. Sir 51:38 Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time.

Various

#7. As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

Nancy Kates

#8. I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Andrew Motion

#9. The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. ...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...

Shel Silverstein

#11. Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

George Orwell