Favourably Quotes

#1. Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

Xenocrates

#2. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.

Benjamin Cohen

#4. The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#5. I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Henry Bessemer

#6. Machinery often responds favourably when it senses a penis-equipped human in the vicinity, Jo used to claim, but not this time.

Stephen King

#7. In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does.

Charles Dickens

#9. The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

Colin Baker

#10. We bring these delightful creatures into the world - eagerly, happily - and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation - but entirely of our own making.

Whit Stillman

#11. The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

#12. We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Rory Bremner

#13. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

E. M. Forster

#14. It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it.

Faraaz Kazi

#15. The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Tim Jackson

#16. Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Isaac Watts

#17. I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

John Linder

#18. I am always at home even when I am traveling to exotic places because this world is my home.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Where we going, Dad?" Hamilton asked. "I don't know. But everybody else is leaving!

Rick Riordan

#20. Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Ruth Draper

#21. Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Edward Young

#22. Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man,

Manmohan Singh

#23. Life is a full meal.

Lisa Nicole Carson

#24. Soccer is my life.

Ethan Zohn

#25. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Gary Hopkins

#26. I want to grow roots and vines from my body and ensnare him forever in my branches. No wonder we scare men away.

Wendy Wunder

#27. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners

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