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Quotes About Favor

Who among the Fae likes you enough to do that favor?" I knew the answer to that. No one. "The one I didn't kill when I demanded it. After I killed the other two." I smiled faintly. One word: badass. I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Why do you hate me?" "I have no emotion about you at all, Mac. I take care of my own. You are not my own." He moved past me, pressed his palm to the door, and stood waiting for me to exit. "Barrons wants you to see your parents so as you go about your business you will remember they are here. With me." "Lovely," I muttered. "I suffer them to live, against my better judgment, as a favor to Barrons. He's running out of favors. Remember that.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You can use one of the damned computers." Charity grinned. Leaning forward, she gave him a smacking kiss on the cheek. "You're a real pal, Hawkins." He fixed her with a glare. "Yeah, well, wait till you hear the favor I want in return.
~ Kat Martin
No muestres compasión por nadie, aunque la sientas. Haz favores sin afectaros. Si vieran emoción e interés en tu rostro cuando les das limosna se abalanzarían sobre ti y desnudo te dejarían. Como a los canes, a los hombres no debe dárseles el alimento sino arrojársele.
~ Gabriela Mistral
One good turn deserves another.
~ Gaius Petronius
What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.
~ Game of Thrones, Season 6
Threatening words are dispatched like soldiers under strict orders: Cause anxiety that cannot be ignored. Surprisingly, their deployment isn't entirely bad news. It's bad, of course, that someone threatens violence, but the threat means that at least for now, he has considered violence and decided against doing it. The threat means that at least for now (and usually forever), he favors words that alarm over actions that harm.
~ Gavin de Becker
Such a process of change will be especially likely if a population is exposed to a changed environment, where a somewhat different set of characteristics is favoured from those already established by selection.
~ Brian Charlesworth
16Let us see your miracles again, and let the rising generation see the glorious wonders you're famous for. 17O Lord our God, let your sweet beauty rest upon us and give us favor. Come work with us, and then our works will endure and give us success in all we do!
~ Brian Simmons
16And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.
~ Brian Simmons
11The blessing of favor resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it higher,f but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words.
~ Brian Simmons
9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.
~ Brian Simmons
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
~ brookner anita ii
That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That GOD seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of his mercy.
~ Brother Lawrence
Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.
~ Bryan Chapell
Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.
~ Bryan Chapell
Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. So seemed it with the Pequod. For next day
~ Herman Melville
God chooses our kinsfolk for us; but man chooses his own wife; having free will in that choice on which hangs his own life, and the lives of others. Yet the wisest of men said, 'Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord.' Ay, a good wife is the token of such loving favor as we know not yet in this world.
~ Hesba Stretton
We who are gods forever have to endure the most horrible hurts, by each other's hatred, as we try to give favor to mortals.
~ Homer
This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.
~ Ian Mcewan
Los relatos no se venden. Los editores suelen hacer estas colecciones como un favor a sus autores consagrados.
~ Ian Mcewan
Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker's dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren't in our favor. "Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar," I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. "That's a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.
~ Ilona Andrews
As it happened so often with our species, logical reasoning was discarded in favor of the overpowering need to be right, facts and consequences be damned.
~ Ilona Andrews