Favour Quotes - Page 6

• For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Weapons, World

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gang, Refrain, Boast

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jumping, Special, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

  Arthur Balfour

  Home, Government, Majesty

  1917 The Balfour Declaration, made in a letter to Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov.

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• I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Nice, Kids

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• I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex perverts.' The last two categories here are very vague . . . The law of Idaho would have justified the sterilization of Socrates, Plato, Julius Caesar, and St. Paul.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Plato, Law

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.102, Routledge

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• Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

  David Mitchell

  Love, Romantic, Two

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• Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Heaven, Fame, Virtuous

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.598, Delphi Classics

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• Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don't turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour.

  Salman Khan

  Dream, Wake Up, Want

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• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

  John Bright

  Reform, Worthy, Ballots

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

  David Brewster

  Foundation, Chance, Creation

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• Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, World, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Thieves, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Axes, Skulls

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, Purpose, Social Work

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• One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

  Anton Siluanov

  Education, Military, Needs

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• Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

  Herodotus

  Successful, Reason, Enjoy

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• In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

  Thucydides

  Generosity, Receiving

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

  Seneca the Younger

  Delay, Flight, Fortune

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• Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Odds, Police

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Cheer, Grateful

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Ease

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Prejudice, World, Youth

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.119

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