Favors Quotes - Page 9

• Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

  Mike Lee

  America, Safety, Goal

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

  Wiley Blount Rutledge

  Law, Justice, Grace

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• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Roots, Racism

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• I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.

  Martin Delany

  Men, White Man, Justice

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• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

  Lucretia Mott

  Encouragement, Justice, Diversity

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she'll actually get help. Coffee's one thing, but coke is another. It's not something you want to really have as a problem in your life. I think we have to kind of stop rewarding bad behavior and actually start helping people.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Coffee, Thinking, People

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• Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Luck

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Strength, Short Life, Acceptance

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• If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

  Robert Pozen

  Motivation, Educational, Order

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• The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

  Wayne Dyer

  Prayer, Special, Purpose

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• We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Prayer, Desire, Asking

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• Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Silence, Silent, Given

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• So can you do me a favor? If I pull it together, make it sooner than later.

  Drake

  Relationship, Humble, Together

  Song: Sooner Than Later, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Life, Summer, Song

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• In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Mind, Matter

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Christian, Patriotic, Men

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• Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

  Roland Barthes

  Strong, Struggle, Joy

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

  Joseph Addison

  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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• I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Faith, Character, Giving

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• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Writing, Marijuana

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Giving, Grace

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.214

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• We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Quantum, Motive

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.110

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