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Quotes About Favor

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
~ Aristotle
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you get to a place in your life where it appears nothing is going in your favor, your circumstances seem hopeless and you have no indication that things will ever change; however, you say with great assurance, "I BELIEVE" then you better get ready, you are speaking the language of God!
~ Terri Savelle Foy
I feel that if You found a soul weaker and littler than mine, which is impossible, You [35]would be pleased to grant it still greater favors, provided it abandoned itself with total confidence to Your Infinite Mercy.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative.
~ Haywood Nelson
We're in favor of independence as long as it's in other people's empires, not in our own.)
~ Noam Chomsky
El trabajo era aburrido y le paga una mierda, y por eso el presidente de la junta local del sindicato de operarios de cines independientes y del sindicato nacional de operadores de cine le estaba haciendo un favor laboral a Tyler Durden dándole una diplomática patada en el culo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Lincoln replied:There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
~ Clint Johnson
Someone helps you out by accident, it's still help.
~ Colson Whitehead
Tum plausu fremituque virum studiisque faventum consonat omne nemus, vocemque inclusa volutant litora, pulsati colles clamore resultant.
~ Virgil
Blue ocean strategy, by contrast, shows how strategy can shape structure in an organization's favor to create new market space.
~ W. Chan Kim
Encouraged, the captains and pilots indicated they were strongly in favor of pushing on—all but one, that is.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Many of our senators and congressmen seem to base their title to public favor upon their uncouth manners and lack of refinement, upon the fact that they have discarded socks or once wore blue-jeans.
~ Cecelia Tichi
Bill handed me an envelope. I handed it back to him. I told him, "I'll do a friend a favor." Russell had taught me well. Don't cheapen yourself. "If you do a friend a favor," Russell had said, "then sometimes he does you a favor." Bill
~ Charles Brandt
Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he might make room for us.
~ Charles C. Mann
The whole society is a slave hierarchy. Everybody curries favor with the echelon above, and keeps his eye on the echelon below to make sure he isn't being undercut. We have something not too unlike that, ourselves. Any organizational society is, in some ways, like a slave society.
~ H. Beam Piper
In a quirk of political fate, Libchaber's own life was saved by the protection of a local chief of the Pétain secret police, a man whose fervent right-wing beliefs were matched only by his fervent antiracism. After the war, the ten-year–old boy returned the favor. He testified, only half-comprehending, before a war crimes commission, and his testimony saved the man.
~ James Gleick
Son, a blessing favors them that needs it. Don't matter how it comes. It just matters that it does.
~ James McBride
I was in a quandary, and my tears busted forth again, which worked out perfect, for it moved them all to my favor, and I seen right off that crying and squalling was part of the game of being a girl.
~ James McBride
But she definitely had my vote.
~ James Patterson
Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
~ Charles Duhigg
There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
~ Caitlin Fitzgerald
When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson