Top 100 Quotes About Favors
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
John Dryden
#8. 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
#9. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Robert Burns
#10. 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
#11. I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.
Robert Moss
#12. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
Jimmy Carter
#13. 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
#14. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
Bo Burnham
#15. Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.
Steven Pinker
#16. One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...
Stephen King
#18. About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
Kin Hubbard
#19. 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
#20. Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
St. Jerome
#21. By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
Bernie Siegel
#22. 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
#23. We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.
Sharron Angle
#24. I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell
#25. I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.
George Carlin
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.
-The Rabbi-
J. Frank Dunkin
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.
Joyce Meyer
#38. That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Hans Kung
#39. (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
#40. 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
#41. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
Agatha Christie
#42. Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
Guy Finley
#43. He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
John Travolta
#46. Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#47. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#48. With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.
Djemal Pasha
#50. So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.
Robin Sloan
#51. Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
David Mamet
#52. Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
Donald Trump
#53. I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn't always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
Amartya Sen
#54. It isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
Patricia Wentworth
#55. The universe always favors those who fight for what they want.
Paulo Coelho
#56. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Seneca The Younger
#57. We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
George D. Prentice
#58. WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
Tama J. Kieves
#59. When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#60. I'm never opposed to sexual favors as payment." He wrapped her ponytail around his fist, leaning close to her ear.
"I'm too exhausted to kick your ass. Drop my hair. You know better.
Debra Anastasia
#61. When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.
Vincent De Paul
#62. I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.
Marshall Fritz
#63. Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,
Hillary Clinton
#64. It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.
Shannyn Sossamon
#65. The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.
William O. Douglas
#66. One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
#67. I like to deal with somebody who has no illusions about getting favors.
Ayn Rand
#68. Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
Brian Tracy
#69. The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus
#70. Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
Bruce Lee
#71. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
Pythagoras
#72. The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
Condoleezza Rice
#73. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Karl Marx
#75. But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.
Phoebe Cary
#77. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#78. Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#79. In the East they say that luck favors the prepared mind. I believe that life favors the prepared mind.
Robin S. Sharma
#80. Nature distributes her favors unequally.
George Sand
#81. Grace ... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
Jerry Bridges
#82. Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian
#83. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
Oswald Chambers
#84. Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
Virginia Woolf
#85. Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you've done for others.
Omar Suleiman
#86. Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.
Robert A. Caro
#87. But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
Earl Long
#88. He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.
Umar
#89. Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said.
James McBride
#90. Fortune favors the brave."
Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
Sherry Thomas
#91. In all Things you must appear important. No minor decisions pass through your hands unless they are quiet acts called 'Favors' done for people whose loyalty can be earned.
Frank Herbert
#92. Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.
Ovid
#93. The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
Miguel Syjuco
#95. The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
Anais Nin
#96. Although I kept postponing my dream, I realized that I could do so no longer, and that the universe always favors those who fight for what they want. After
Paulo Coelho
#97. Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
Germaine Greer
#98. Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
Golda Meir
#99. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
B.F. Skinner
#100. Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere.
Alexis De Tocqueville
