Favor Quotes
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I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.
Vaclav Havel -
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
Honore de Balzac
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Abraham Lincoln -
Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.
Alfonsina Storni -
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates -
I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.
Charles Ferguson -
Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
Lord Byron -
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
Artemas Ward
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Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.
Arthur Schnitzler -
Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.
Dean Baker -
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
Islom Karimov -
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short -
Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Jonathan Swift -
A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
Caroline Pafford Miller -
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
Rumi -
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Steven Spielberg -
We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.
Nicky Oppenheimer -
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Seneca the Younger
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Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.
Bill Phillips -
I feel that my message of Jesus and His finished work at Calvary has delivered grace to us which is unearned and unmerited favor.
Ricky Dillard -
I think Larry is right to notice that the contradictions are catching the allies up already. It's one of those cases where even before you begin bombing the children, the coalition is falling apart. And that's good news. And I'm very much in favor of it. Some Powell or other is messing up the war.
Eben Moglen -
I always said the calendar was working in our favor. If he was going to (retire), he would have told us in January.
Bob Harlan