If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.
I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.
I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?
[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.