Favor Quotes - page 2

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. (Oscar Wilde)
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. View quote
Milton Friedman
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. View quote
Barack Obama
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. View quote
Immanuel Kant
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up. View quote
Frank Robinson
I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities. View quote
Frank Vincent
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. (Herbert Croly)
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. View quote
Islom Karimov
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. View quote
Michael Nesmith
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights. View quote
Omar Bongo
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. View quote
David Gerrold
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses." View quote
James Madison
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness. View quote
James Madison
We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them. View quote
Phil Donahue
A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it. (Chinua Achebe)
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. View quote
Al-Farabi
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. View quote
Paulo Freire
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. View quote
Robert Frost
May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. View quote
Themistocles