Favoured Quotes

35 quotes by 35 authors

Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own… — Jo Brand
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or… — Herbert Spencer
I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. — Howard Jacobson
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare… — Ibn Hazm
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They… — Daniel Pauly
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are… — Ernest Lawrence
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. — Miguel de Cervantes
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American. — Leonard Slatkin
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed… — Anthony Giddens
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the… — H. L. Mencken
A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which… — Leon Chaitow
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. — Charles Darwin
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather. — Claude Monet
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not… — Paul Cezanne
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those… — H P Lovecraft
When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that… — Brigham Young
A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even… — James Anthony Froude
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. — Winston Churchill

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