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Quotes About Favor

My dear, replied her husband, I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.
~ Jane Austen
She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
~ Jane Austen
dance with him." "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud.
~ Jane Austen
should infinitely prefer a book.
~ Jane Austen
Thank God for small favors.
~ Janet Evanovich
Okay," she said. "I'll go with him, but you owe me. I want one of them five-gallon jugs of rice pudding when I come
~ Janet Evanovich
No relative of mine has tried to pull favors in Chandigarh - got a job or even a license prepared, started a business, unlike others who did a lot for their families.
~ Kirron Kher
I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
~ Desmond Tutu
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
~ Bradley Cooper
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
~ Alan Lewis
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
However reluctant Italians are to embrace a multiracial society, the old antipathy to government and authority works in favor of the illegal alien.
~ Tim Parks
you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
~ Timothy Leary
I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?
~ Jon Voight
Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.
~ Pat Conroy
They are far more likely to return the favor.
~ Dale Carnegie
Well then, said I, if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?
~ Daniel Defoe
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
~ Red Skelton
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, but if you hate me, I will always be in your mind.
~ William Shakespeare
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.
~ Chris Oyakhilome