Top 50 No More Favors Quotes
#1. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.
Frederick The Great
#3. Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.
David Quammen
#4. Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.
-The Rabbi-
J. Frank Dunkin
#5. Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
#6. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.
J.I. Packer
#8. If Only
but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can't rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good.
Terry Hayes
#9. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
H.L. Mencken
#10. Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.
Joyce Meyer
#13. That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Hans Kung
#14. Well, there's 10 - there's 10 different - there's 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I'm absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.
Rand Paul
#15. I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.
Florence Welch
#16. That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.
Hugo Black
#17. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
Chinua Achebe
#19. No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.
Diane Capri
#20. If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That's always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.
Carlos Castaneda
#21. A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
#22. When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
Importune me no more!
Elizabeth I
#23. Chance favors the prepared mind, and there's no mind more prepared than yours.
Heidi Heilig
#24. No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
Abraham Lincoln
#25. 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
#26. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
Bo Burnham
#27. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
Amory Lovins
#28. In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.
Preston Sturges
#30. Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
Dan Rather
#32. Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
John Dryden
#33. The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!
Ned Vizzini
#34. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Robert Burns
#35. Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
Ivana Trump
#36. I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.
Robert Moss
#37. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
Jimmy Carter
#38. One of these days, she'll let me perform a favor for her without calculating what she owes me, which is always going to be nothing. Except for maybe a kiss, if our relationship ever reaches that level - pinnacle? - where favors can be repaid sexually (in a respectful manner).
Jay Clark
#39. What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Sir Fulke Greville
#40. Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.
Steven Pinker
#41. One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...
Stephen King
#43. About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
Kin Hubbard
#44. While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.
Robert Greene
#45. Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
St. Jerome
#46. By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
Bernie Siegel
#47. If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.
Doug Stanhope
#48. We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.
Sharron Angle
#49. I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell
#50. I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.
George Carlin
