Best Favors Proverbs
1081 Favors quotes by 790 unique authors
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The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois…
— Max Horkheimer
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
— Horace
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
— Livy
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I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith…
— Jimmy Carter
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
— David Mamet
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We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish…
— Mark Rothko
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The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it…
— John le Carre
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I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to…
— Malcolm X
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The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal…
— Rand Paul
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Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of…
— James E. Faust
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France…
— Boris Brasol
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Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people…
— Jim Wallis
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One person can bring favor to many during the storm.
— Beth Moore
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People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this…
— Richard Dawkins
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
— Amelia Barr
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God himself favors the brave.
— Ovid
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us…
— Seneca the Younger
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In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
— Louis Pasteur
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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
— Rumi
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I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take…
— Sarah Moore Grimke
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I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages
— Barack Obama
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"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"
— Barack Obama
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