Favors Quotes - Page 4

• Venus favors the bold.

  Ovid

  Venus, Flirtation, Boldness

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Brave, Doe

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Death, Party

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Voice, Numbers

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• If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

  Louise Brown

  Inspirational, Return, Comeback

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• When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Benefits, Worthy

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• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  North of Boston (1914) "Black Cottage"

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• The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love Life, Imagination, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

  Publilius Syrus

  Refuse

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• The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

  Publilius Syrus

  Return, Comeback, Persons

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• I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  World, Fairness, Nonsense

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• I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

  Mitt Romney

  Creating, Cells, Cloning

  Press conference, May 2005.

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• Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

  Garrett Hardin

  Earth, Pollution, Resources

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Writing, Long, Salad

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• I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Want, Policy, Statements

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• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  Iggy Pop

  Memories, Survival, Hot

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Grandparent, Asian Culture

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• You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

  Artur Davis

  Reality, Losing, Election

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• 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

  Cutting, Increase, Democrat

  "Bush's latest investor-friendly tax cut". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2003.

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• Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

  Wietse Venema

  Mean, Window, Process

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• You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

  Mark Cane

  Friendship, Men, Cooperation

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• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Clare Short

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Voice, Differences

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  Sam Houston

  Men, Second Chance, Texas

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