Favors Quotes - Page 16

• In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

  Theodore Roethke

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.89, Copper Canyon Press

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• Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Practice

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Growth

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Nature, Thinking

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

  Stewart Brand

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Real, Mean

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• It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Dry Up, People

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• White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

  Jesse Helms

  Daughter, White, Race

  "Come on, you liberals" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2001.

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• I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

  Grover Cleveland

  Strong, Mistake, Law

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, People, Guy

  "Rachel Maddow Confronts Jim DeMint, Ralph Reed Over Gay Marriage On ‘Meet The Press’ ", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

  Jan Neruda

  Writing, Force, Reader

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• My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Believe, Struggle, Performances

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• Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.

  David Brainerd

  Men, Perfect, Soul

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Example, Alternatives

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• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Children, School, Maintenance

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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• Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

  PZ Myers

  Silence, Addresses, Maintaining

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• And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Struggle, Responsibility, Past

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• They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.

  Mac Miller

  Falling In Love, Work Out, Way

  Song: All I Want Is You, Album: K.I.D.S., 2010

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• If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Practice, Play

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• A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Husband, Ninety Nine, Feet

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• But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

  Earl Long

  Snakes, Providence, Exception

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• I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

  Pepper Adams

  Music, Scotch, Jazz

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• The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

  Erich Auerbach

  Rebel, Stories, May

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

  Joel Salatin

  Corn, Grass, Feds

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