Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.
I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.
Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.
Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will. . . return the benefit and reciprocate.
Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr. , La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi. ]
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
Live life as if its rigged in your favor.