Quotes About Favor

grace, man—what you're given, not what you deserve.

The best argument in favor of the universality of natural language expressive power is the possibility of translation. The best argument against universality is the impossibility of translation.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

I saw little evidence of an emerging consensus in favor of them and widespread confusion about how they would work.

There was also substantial sentiment at the meeting in favor of holding our fire until we had a better sense of how the Lehman situation would play out.

In return, I tried to do Janet a favor by urging the assembled FOMC members to be more constructive and less strident in their public remarks.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?

I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform - every member of my court does - and every legislative session, reform measures are filed... and then they fail.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Some men like you less the more they owe you. Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Proverbs 11:27 has a great summary of both sides: 'If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!' Ultimately, for better or for worse, it is often our *actions* that end up determining how we feel.

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans.

I know that I am in no position to ask a favor of you. But I beg you to do one thing, not for me—I shall never ask anything more of you for myself.

One thing I can say for certain. There?'s just no telling whom God will take a liking to.

Can you do me a great favor?" he asked. "I would be most grateful." "Of course," said Annie.

Why don't you wish to take any credit for it, James? That's out of character and out of the policy at which you're such an expert. In an age when men exist, not by right, but by favor, one does not reject a grateful person, one tries to trap into gratitude as many people as possible. Don't you want to have me as one of your men under obligation?