Favors Quotes - Page 35

• In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, World, Might

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• We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

  Gracie Allen

  Country, Jobs, Pay

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• To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pride

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• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

  Ellis Peters

  Religion, Receiving, Benefits

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Hermit Of Eyton Forest”, p.58, Head of Zeus

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• To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

  John Churton Collins

  Friendship, Accepting

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, May, Morality

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• Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Class, Special

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• Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

  Pindar

  Looks, Littles, Life Is

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• It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Believe, Men

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.429

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• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Honesty, Kindness, Eye

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• In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Men, Practice

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• The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Fire, Tough Questions

  "Bloomberg: U.S. 'Is in Trouble'" by Josh Gerstein, www.nysun.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

  Nancy Reagan

  Punishment, Capital Punishment, Save A Life

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• From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

  Francis Atterbury

  Success, Mere, Nations

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• Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Important, Trifling, Obligation

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• Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Grateful, Kind, Break

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• Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

  Daniel Johnston

  Savior

  Song: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances

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• favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

  Donna Leon

  People, Asks

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• How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

  Jane Smiley

  Farming, Farmers, Knows

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.45, Anchor

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• Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

  Florence King

  Mean, Simple, People

  Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.155, Macmillan

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• I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully developed characters, this novel held me spellbound until the last page. If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.

  Colleen Coble

  Book, Character, Winning

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• Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

  Eliza Leslie

  Gratitude, Want, Thanks

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.176

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• [On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

  Florence Prag Kahn

  Law, Birth Control, Ifs

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• In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Writing, Humility

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• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

  Bradley Cooper

  Catholic, Guilt, Ask Me

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