Favor Quotes

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

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.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.