You have to be positive and turn things in your favour.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness,…

— Anonymous

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of…

— Chris Hani

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

— Aristotle

I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

— Kurt Rambis

Not the fastest always win the race.

— Unkown

“When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

— Publilius Syrus

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

— Max Weber

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a…

— Lewis Wolpert

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man…

— William Wordsworth

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack…

— John Howard