Favors Quotes - Page 39

• No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Favour, Would Be

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
  Take nature altogether since time began,
  Including human nature, in peace and war,
  And it must be a little more in favor of man.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, War, Men

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
  ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Florida, Rights, Expression

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• The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Years, Agriculture

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• Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

  Conan O'Brien

  Atheist, Heaven, Religion

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• Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Military, Simple

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• The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Law, Class

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sports, Letting Go, Running

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• When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
  Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
  But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
  "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
  Importune me no more!

  Elizabeth I

  Rejection, Mistress, Young

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Believe, Giving, Deception

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• Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than those which oppose them; and in cases where this tendency is very strong, the only effect of great learning will be to supply the materials which may corroborate old errors and confirm old superstitions. In our time such instances are not uncommon; and we frequently meet with men whose erudition ministers to their ignorance, and who, the more they read the less they know.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Strong, Ignorance, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1913). “History of Civilization in England”

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• We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Freedom, Government, Self

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, America, Democracy

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• Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Secret

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• Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!!

  Joel Osteen

  Winning, Destiny, Dna

  Joel Osteen (2014). “You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Guy, Stronger

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• Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

  Artemas Ward

  Unions, Ifs

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• Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Luck, Grind

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• Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo

  Christopher Golden

  Children, Reading, Character

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "Barack Obama Answers Your Questions About Gay Marriage, Paying For College, More". Interview with Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. November 1, 2008.

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• The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Waiting, Sour

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• A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Cutting, Winning

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• If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

  Joel Osteen

  Opportunity, Promotion, Where You Are

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