Favors Quotes · Page 10

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so…

— Robin Givhan

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

— Anonymous

“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately…

— James Hollis

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They…

— Linda Gray

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

— Frans de Waal

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

— Leon Trotsky

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

— Timothy Keller

Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason…

— Brandon Mull

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

— Ice T

The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom…

— Andrew Sullivan

There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one…

— Rashida Jones

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

— Harold S. Kushner

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified…

— Michael Parenti

I think one of the areas of favor and grace that God has allowed us to see is internally he's just given…

— LeCrae

they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah…

— Pat Robertson

Chance favors only those who court her.

— Charles Nicolle

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're…

— Peg Bracken

Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel…

— Glenn Greenwald

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling,…

— H. L. Mencken

In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your…

— Joe

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out…

— J. Christopher Herold

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns…

— Indira Gandhi