Quotes About Favor

Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.

Sometimes luck is on your side, and everything works.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. Stop looking so superior! my father sometimes used to shout at me when I was eating, watching television, or otherwise minding my own business. But this facial cast of mine (that's what I think it is, really, a way my mouth has of turning down at the corners, it has little to do with my actual moods) has worked as often to my favor as to my disadvantage.

Wasn't me who said capitalism was wrong. I just didn't want another argument with Carol. Big projects need capital. It's when the people who have the capital get laws made in their favour that it all goes bad.

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

She not only loves her children, she respects them. They have wills, tastes, thoughts, judgments of their own, and this is as she wishes it to be. She distinguishes clearly between counsel and command: command must be obeyed; counsel may be disregarded without rebuke and without loss of favor.

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.'" "Amen

Echoing Cantril's view, George Gallup had earlier noted that "the best way to influence public opinion" on an issue was "to get Mr. Roosevelt to talk about it and favor it.

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. (vv. 3 – 4 NLT)

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

Sorry hun, but unlike you, I'm not a doorknob where everyone gets a turn. I'm more of a casino where only the lucky ones hit the jackpot.

Any favor rendered without appreciation is like being dispossessed of your most priced asset.

I brought a young MIT mathematician, Dr. Nadipuram Prasad, into my department and gave him a budget. Within six months he developed the Markov method for econometric modeling. [...] It was exactly what we wanted: a tool that scientifically "proved" we were doing countries a favor by helping them incur debts they would never be able to pay off.

In ground forces, when someone does you a favor you tell them you owe them a sex act. If it's a little thing, it's a handjob. Medium, blowjob. Big favor, you owe them a fuck. Force of habit. It's just an expression. Got it, Dahl said. No actual blowjob forthcoming, Duvall said. To be clear. It's the thought that counts.

He thought that she possessed the two great gifts: she was smart and she got the breaks— and you couldn't want no better than that.

No hay espíritu más desprendido en el mundo que el de un pobre a quien de pronto favorece la fortuna.

Maybe a little," says Jacob. "You see, it's not my wife who needs a favor. It's my son." "First your wife, and now your son? It's as I always say. There is no host in the

If you believe in faith and keep speaking victory, favor, health and wholeness, you will see positive changes begin to happen in your life.