Favor Quotes

If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favoured by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations.

I have tried to find a phrase in which to define what the Republican Party has done at home. I have said we were "progressive moderates." Right at the moment I rather favor the term "dynamic conservatism."

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor...If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.