Favour Quotes

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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
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and… — Charles Dickens
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
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
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
'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
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. — Winston Churchill
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
Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow. — Walter Matthau
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
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
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
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
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
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
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. — Tom Stoppard
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
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
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
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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