I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled. — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that. — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
“It always seems like the universe behaves reluctant to intercept those who determinedly travel to their destinations! It is as if the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“If you leave your life to chance, you can't make a change. Chance may favour a prepared mind, but it doesn't create… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The economics favour one-man comedy shows: all you need is one person, a microphone and a PA system. But I'm pleased so… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember God has accepted us. The gospel of grace is a message of breathtaking freedom. It must be embraced with faith and… — Terry Virgo Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour. — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
