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Tag Name "Favour" (228)

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One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.
Anton Siluanov
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Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
Howard Nemerov
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Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
Charles Spurgeon
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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
Richard Dawkins
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What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
Gordon Brown
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Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.
Robin Lane Fox
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If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position
Shri Radhe Maa
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
Samuel Johnson
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
George Santayana
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There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.
Tim Lebbon
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
Anthony de Mello
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Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Publilius Syrus
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I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
Chanakya
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.
Neil Kinnock
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Umberto Eco
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His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
Arthur Balfour
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I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: Am I a dishonest player? - for he is willing to succumb.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
Ken Stott
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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.
Ovid
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We must win rulers political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
Richard Wurmbrand
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