Favors Quotes - Page 5

• Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Children, Kids

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• Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

  Samuel Richardson

  Prejudice, Difficult, Deeper

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• I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

  Kabir Bedi

  Producers

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• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

  Livy

  Fall, Honor, Desire

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 57,

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• It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

  Socrates

  Apology, Law, Giving

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• Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Wall, Oil

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Islamic, Pride

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

  Joel Osteen

  Life, God, Faith

  Twitter post from Apr 9, 2012

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• Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

  Omar Suleiman

  God, Prayer, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 25, 2014

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• Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Husband

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• But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Parent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Obedience, Obedient

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

  James Sinegal

  Strong, Class, Wages

  "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

  Stefan Zweig

  Party, Independent, Earth

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• No wind favors he who has no destined port.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

  James Woods

  People, Half, Able

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• I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

  Marvin Olasky

  Race, Alternatives, Preference

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• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  James Woods

  Attitude, Snow, Hollywood

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• I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Encouragement, Recovery, Keys

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• Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Reading, Technology, Reasonable

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