Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
It couldn`t be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
I am very much in favor of tax cuts.
I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.
When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.
There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive.
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.
I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.
We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Fortune favors the audacious.