Quotes of: Favors Keyword

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Lisa Randall

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

Stanley B. Prusiner

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Il Duce: And I shall count thee among my favored sheep, and you shall have the protection of all the Angels in Heaven.

The Boondock Saints

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.

Ari Fleischer

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

William Howard Taft

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Alexander Payne

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

Kage Baker

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Maynard Webb

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.

John Bolton

La vida era así, una interminable cadena de favores mutuos, y desentenderse de la familia y de los seres cercanos cuando la necesitaban le hubiera parecido una traición imperdonable.

Contra el viento

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

Dream a Little Dream

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.

Due Justice

The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.

Ender's Game

The world isn't fair, Calvin." "I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue.

Favor Walks With Us

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Grace God's Unmerited Favor

Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.

Gone, Gone, Gone

Do yourself the ultimate favor...Go out and make the rest of your life the best of your life.

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

Black Hawk Down

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

David Small