Favor Quotes

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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.