Favors Quotes - Page 28

• Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Flattery, Compliment, Valuable

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Average, Stories

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• We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

  Samuel Johnson

  Self, Giving, Growth

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.37

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

  Beryl Markham

  People, Giving, Balance

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

  Catullus

  Gracious, Fury, Confounding

  "Carmina". LXIV. 406,

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Islam, Majority

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• With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

  Rob Portman

  Strong, Hurt, Rejection

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• If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

  Leighton Meester

  Humility, Eye, Men

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• Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

  Golda Meir

  Responsibility, Israel, Cleansing

  Golda Meir's speech to the Knesset as quoted in "New England Review", October 1961.

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• I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

  John Hancock

  Country, Men, People

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• I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them....My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Father, Moon, Men

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• I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.

  Carl Schurz

  Character, Mean, Civilization

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• I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

  JR

  Never Forget, Forget

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• A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

  David

  Keys, Views, Agreement

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• Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

  Pythagoras

  Coping, Difficulty, Time And Patience

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• Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Friendship, Men, Great Men

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• I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ems, Politics

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• Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Latin, Pyramids, America

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Civilization, Mind, Doe

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• When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, May, Fortune

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga

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• The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Children, Yoga

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