Favors Quotes - Page 12

• The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thinking, Air, Giving

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• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  Rumi

  Strong, Buddhist, Loss

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Love Is Reckless”

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• I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Feet, Justice

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.10

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• A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Buddhist, Being Thankful

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• Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Suicidal, Gone, Use

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• Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

  Paul Krugman

  Hysteria, Benefits, Wealthy

  "Panic of the Plutocrats". www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2011.

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• Chance favors those in motion.

  James H. Austin

  Inspirational, Basketball, Chance

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• [T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.

  Tyler Burge

  Philosophical, Special, Example

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• Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

  Eskinder Nega

  Country, Race, Ethnicity

  "Nelson Mandela Was Released From Prison After 27 Years. These 10 Political Prisoners Are Still Waiting" By Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2013.

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• For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

  Denise Hunter

  Religious, Winning, People

  Denise Hunter (2014). “Big Sky Romance Collection: A Cowboy's Touch, The Accidental Bride, The Trouble with Cowboys”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Ownership

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Government, Turkeys

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• Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

  H. L. Mencken

  America, Judging, Decay

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Growing Up, Sheep, Leaving

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.290, Random House

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Colonization, Known

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• I think one of the areas of favor and grace that God has allowed us to see is internally he's just given us a strong sense of work ethic and craftsmanship. We really do work hard to make GOOD quality music.

  LeCrae

  Strong, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• "I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Kindness, Believe

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• Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Suffering, Saint

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

  Benny Hill

  Hilarious, Sarcastic, People

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• Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Intelligence, Conditions, Cease

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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