Quotes About Unfavourable

#1. Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.

David Hume

#2. When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

Dada Bhagwan

#3. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.

C.S. Lewis

#4. It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

Charles Darwin

#5. The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.

Cesare Borgia

#6. Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances

John James Cowperthwaite

#7. It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#8. The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Zubin Mehta

#9. I am not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary superlative existed, could escape these unfavourable reflections of himself in various small mirrors; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin.

George Eliot

#10. The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Saintsbury

#11. But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

Adam Smith

#12. Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#13. Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Karl Radek

#14. The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.

Leonora Carrington

#15. From the moment you become aware of a secret, the inevitable question arises: what price will you pay to keep it?

Jamie McGuire

#16. I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

Amy Poehler

#17. With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. ... It is sunshine when clouds block the light. Ensign, May 1986

Marvin J. Ashton

#18. I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

Ioan Gruffudd

#20. When our thoughts are born,
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray
And shame their mother.

Jean Ingelow

#21. One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

Alice Rivlin

#22. It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

Anthony Liccione

#23. Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.

Stacey Kade

#24. Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair ... and oh yeah. Some panties.

Jeaniene Frost

#25. Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Anna Deavere Smith

#26. Sometimes I wonder if she's whispering to hear heart: Beat. Beat. Beat. To her lungs: In, out. In, out. Like it takes all her time and energy to exist.

Emery Lord