Favor Quotes

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.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.