Favors Quotes - Page 36

• I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Climate, Today, Way

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• Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Men, Law, People

  "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.

  Tim Gunn

  Gay, Thinking, Numbers

  "BPR Interview: Tim Gunn". Interview with Michael Chernin, www.brownpoliticalreview.org. May 7, 2014.

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• Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

  Seth Godin

  Return, Ifs

  Interview with Laura Cohen, www.experian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Grief, Connections, Argument

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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• Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Christian, Real, People

  O. S. Hawkins (2005). “Guidestones: ancient landmarks of authenticity for the 21st century church”

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• The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Strong, Sex, Creativity

  "The Woman's Personality and Role in Life". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

  John Allen Fraser

  Race, Goal, Long

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Together, World, Demand

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

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• a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Mother, Law, World

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Tactics, Knows, Asks

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• Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

  Jennifer Stone

  Movie, Arguing, Film

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Black And White, Journey, Today

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• One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image.

  Jamie Buckingham

  Christian, Unhappy, Benefits

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• The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ

  Graham Cooke

  Thinking, Knowing, Identity

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• Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Offering, Window

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• Poor wretches that depend
  On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
  Wake, and find nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Greatness, Done

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christian, Strong, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

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• When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Kindness, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.45

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• With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

  Djemal Pasha

  Decision, Democracy, Young

  "Djemal Pasha In Moscow", New York Times, June 17, 1920.

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• who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

  Ursula Curtiss

  Gratitude, Definitions, Thanks

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• Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.

  Judith N. Shklar

  Party, Decision, Political

  Judith N. Shklar, Bernard Yack (1996). “Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar”, p.80, University of Chicago Press

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• In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly

  Frank Schilling

  Names, Fortune, Domain

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• Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Political

  "Bush Speaks at Annual National Prayer Breakfast". www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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