Favor Quotes - page 3

Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart. (Arthur Rubinstein)
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. View quote
Ian Hacking
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
There are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife. View quote
David Ogilvy
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger. View quote
Mike Godwin
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. View quote
John Dryden
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. View quote
Dorothy Parker
We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that? View quote
Simon Blackburn
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian. View quote
Ellen G. White
I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living. View quote
Reinaldo Arenas
With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks. View quote
Ahmed Djemal
I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old .... View quote
Henry Clay
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. View quote
Richard Steele
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
By my monastic life and vows I am saying No to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socio-economic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace. View quote
Thomas Merton
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing. View quote
Patrick Warburton