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Tag Name "Favoured" (19)

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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
Jo Brand
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A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.
Leon Chaitow
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Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch
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Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.
Winston Churchill
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Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.
Anthony Giddens
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The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
Charles Darwin
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
Claude Monet
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It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
George Orwell
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As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.
H. Rider Haggard
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[Hillary Clinton] had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that there's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya.
Julian Assange
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
Leonard Slatkin
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
Philip James Bailey
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
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Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.
Catherine Wilson
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Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.
Charles Wesley
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Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright The band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light And somewhere men are laughing and little children shout But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.
Ernest Lawrence
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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
H. L. Mencken
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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
James Anthony Froude