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Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.
I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.
The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.
In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.
I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.
Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.
He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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.
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.