Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.
Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit. '
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr. , La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi. ]
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.
a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.
WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.
I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.