Favor Quotes

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.