Quotes About Favoritism

For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.

This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

Each of his sons had been his favorite child.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.

My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in your glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? —James 2:1

We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

And Isaac loved Esau - Isaac though he was not a stirring man himself, yet he loved to have his son active. Esau knew how to please him, and shewed a great respect for him, by treating him often with venison, which won upon him more than one would have thought. But Rebekah loved him whom God loved.

Forced to vote for a Davis, I'll take Jefferson and give you Bette.

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting--corruption and favoritism, mostly--endemic to the system.

As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary. All creatures in life had an equal chance with my brother, from terrier to psychotherapist. Those that impressed him with an especially keen mental ability, an amusing trick or had a large portion of food to offer would gain his favor. If my brother could find nothing of value to the person, he would dismiss them entirely.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation—as in raising up America as a uniquely favored nation—is not only unwarranted, it is a direct assault on the distinct holiness of Jesus Christ and the kingdom he died to establish.

I'd take Tom Hollander over Brad Pitt any day.

Many "older" children go through life either secretly or openly hating their parents. They blame them for past abuses, neglect, or favoritism and they center their adult life on that hatred, living out the reactive, justifying script that accompanies it.