Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus… — Horace Copy Share Image
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in… — Clive Anderson 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
And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and… — John Howard Copy Share Image
The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that… — Idries Shah 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
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built… — Rick Joyner 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
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I need a favour.’ I raise my eyebrows at him in disbelief. What makes him think I’m about to do him a… — Sarah Alderson Copy Share Image
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that -… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace Copy Share Image
He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
Love me or hate me both are in my favour.if you love me then I w'll be in your heart.if you hate… — Naim Copy Share Image
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour. — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player… — Vladimir Kramnik 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