Favour Quotes - Page 9

• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

  Horace

  Men, Court, Pleasant

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• When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Past, Thinking, Way

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.183, Vintage

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• I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Hands, Law

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• It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Dry Up, People

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• Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

  Roy Jenkins

  Fabric, Social, Type

  Speech in the House of Commons. Hansard (transcript of Parliamentary Debates), Column 579, November 10, 1982.

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• There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress, or that's what you look to That kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Attitude, Government

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• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Suicidal, Punishment

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• I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

  Tony Abbott

  Australia, Notion, Immigrants

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

  Philip Massinger

  Courtesy

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.189

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• But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Mislead Us

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

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• I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Would Be, Way, Referendums

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• God and posterity will show me more favour

  Lady Jane Grey

  Show Me, Shows, Posterity

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  Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

  Ronaldinho

  Beautiful, Football, Games

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• In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Insight, Accuracy

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  Daley Thompson

  Skills, Weakness, Sometimes

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• If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Hard Work, People, Wish

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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Doing Me, Hunger, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obvious, Skepticism, Bias

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• Fortune favours the audacious.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Courage, Luck, Fortune

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• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Remembrance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

  Philip Sidney

  Sympathy, Affliction, Sparks

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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• I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

  George MacDonald

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  George MacDonald, Clive Staples Lewis (1990). “George MacDonald: an anthology”

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• Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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