Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
Do your kids a favor: Love your spouse.
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.
If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly
If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.