Favors Quotes - Page 2

• La fortuna y el amor favorecen a los valientes.

  Ovid

  Amor, Inspirador, Deprimente

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• El lanzador sólo tiene una pelota. Yo tengo un bate. Así que el porcentaje en las armas está a mi favor y dejo que el que tiene la bola haga el trasteo.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivación, Deportes, Béisbol

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• This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

  Amelia Barr

  Running, Giving, Luck

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• Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Humor, Church

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• The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Mother, Brother, Horse

  Clifford Geertz (1988). “Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author”, p.8, Stanford University Press

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• What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

  Salsa ondulada

  Fun, Decision, Engagement

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• That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

  Hans Kung

  Dar, Camino

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• I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, Class

  "The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787".

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• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Change, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Sacrifice, Equality

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• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  Harold J. Warner

  Humility, Grace, Gateways

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• Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Chance

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• Technology favors horrible people.

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, People, Horrible

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

  Robert Burns

  Powerful, Persons, Wretched

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• O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Fall

  "Enrique VIII" (1613) acto 3, esc. 2, l. 352

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• Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely Be Discarded In Favor Of A Military Form Of Government

  Tommy Franks

  Military, Government, Mass Destruction

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• El perro se gana nuestro favor dando juego a nuestra propensión al dominio...

  Thorstein Veblen

  Dog, Play, Mastery

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). "Un tesoro de Veblen: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism", p.77, M.E. Sharpe

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• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  Omar Bongo

  Communication, Tools, Information

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• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Odds, Ifs

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• I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Artículos

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• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Claudio Hummes

  Rights, Personality, Support

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• My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

  Gerrit Smith

  Spring, Rights, Grace

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• So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Judging, Economy, Court

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Being Single

  1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

  J. I. Packer

  Mind, Guarantees, Assurance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.43, InterVarsity Press

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