Favour Quotes
306 quotes by 257 authors
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Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all…
— Pope Francis
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
— Charles Dickens
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According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her…
— Louis de Montfort
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Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest.…
— Richard Sibbes
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:…
— George Washington
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'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it…
— George Washington
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I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
— Winston Churchill
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can…
— William Wordsworth
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Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.
— Walter Matthau
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Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
— Richard Dawkins
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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,…
— Guillaume Faye
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out…
— Harold Bloom
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The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there…
— Avigdor Lieberman
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And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of…
— Thomas Paine
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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
— Tom Stoppard
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To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that…
— Nathaniel Cotton
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High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.
— Linda McQuaig
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For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of…
— Linda McQuaig
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our…
— Herodotus
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