The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Something you do to boost your morale is one of the greatest favors you can do for yourself!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled,… — Josephus Copy Share Image
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they… — Leven Rambin Copy Share Image
I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the… — Georgios Christodoulou Copy Share Image
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I'm wearing a put together from a little shop that I favor called The Back of My Closet. — Betty White Copy Share Image
I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image