Favors Quotes
I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.
Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.
Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.
As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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.
He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.
Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.
Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.
Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'
I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.