Favor
Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Famous, Favor, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Original, Poem, Solitude
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Favor, Meaningful, Poverty, Wealth
What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures – so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Creature, Die, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Glory, God, Honor, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Saving
Suspenseful movies are one of my favorite kinds of stuff. It compels you to think about what happened next.
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Favor, Favorite, Kind, Kindest, Kindness, Surviving, Suspended
Would you favor me with a dance?” Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. “Have we met before, Lady?
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Choices, Dance, Famous, Favor, Hands
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Child, Decision, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Deserves, Dignity, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Thankful, Value
I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
Author: Kabir BediTopics: Famous, Favor, Never, Pressurized, Producers
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Experiences, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Holding, Meaningful, Meetings, People, Productive
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
Topics: Famous, Favor, Favorite, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Times, Times of difficulty, Today, Togetherness
Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Favor, Inferior
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Everything, Famous, Favor, Freedom, Hate, Honesty
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Friends, Inspirational, King, Life, Meaningful, Overall, World
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
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Favor, Favorite, General, Great, Human, Human behavior, Progress, Purpose, Purposeful Living, Satisfaction
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Change, Change of Power, Changeable, Favor, Favorite, Lesson, Letting go, Phenomenon, Philosopher, Will, Will power
If I’m out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I’ve got a favorite. If I’m jumping, I have a favorite, and if I’m racing, I have a favorite.
Author: Evel KnievelTopics: Famous, Favor, Favorite, Leaders, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Motorcycles, Riding, Right, Roads
There is no exercise that can take the place of walking. by it the circulation of the blood is greatly improved. Walking, in all cases where it is possible, is the best remedy for the diseased bodies, because in this, all of the organs of the body are brought into use.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Exercise, Famous, Favor, Improved, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Place, Strongest, Walking
The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Christian, Famous, Favor, Inspirational, Life, Loving, Meaningful, Strong, Strongest
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Famous, Favor, Interested, Israel, Refugee, Responsibility, Speak
We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Difficult, Famous, Favor, Light, Patience, Prepared, Times, Understand, Universe
The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons—longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted personal.
Author: Carl JungTopics: Child, Civil, Desire, Fantasy, Far, Favor, Life Cycle, Life Experiences, Life of the Whole, Personal Appearance, Pictures
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Experiences, Famous, Favor, Meaningful, System
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Favor, Meaningful, Reason
I favor the policy of the economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Economy, Favor, Money, People
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Famous, Favor, Greater, Meaningful, Someone