Favour Quotes - Page 13

• He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

  Chanakya

  Dirty, Sleep, Personality

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• We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Winning, Men

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• But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Spiritual, Voice

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• I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Ethical, Anarchism

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

  Michael Kenna

  Practice, Brave, Doubt

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.

  James M. Buchanan

  Queens, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Science, Doctors

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• There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.

  Michael Longley

  Believe, Puff, World

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.91, Penguin Books India

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• Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Powerful, Business

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

  Agnes Martin

  Ideas, Want, Painting

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• Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work of thine can buy forgiveness or make thee fit for the Divine favour? What work has God bidden thee work in order to obtain salvation? None. His Word is very plain and easy to be understood, "To him that worketh not, but believeth in Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5). There is but one work by which a man can be saved. That work is not thine, but the work of the Son of God. That work is finished.

  Horatius Bonar

  Christian, Son, Men

  Horatius Bonar (1881). “How shall I go to God? And other readings”

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• Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

  Mark Lawrence

  Views, Balance, World

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, Book 3)”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

  Mark Twain

  Pay, Compliment, Ass

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• You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Needs, Limits

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, People, Community

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Birth Rate, Voting, Method

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• The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Strong, Believe, Escaping

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• The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Hate, Envy

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• David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.

  Jane Mayer

  Fall, Government, Libertarian

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.

  Catherine Wilson

  Sex, Children, Passion

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

  Chris Alexander

  Commitment, Thinking, Paris

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

  James E. Webb

  Beer, Cells, Drunk

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