Favor Quotes

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.

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.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

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.

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.