Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning — Ferreira Gullar Copy Share Image
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing… — James E. Webb Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most… — Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. — Horace Copy Share Image
A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
“We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.” — Ivan Michurin Copy Share Image