Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Catherine Deneuve

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

Barbara Mikulski

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

Doc Hastings

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

Jesse Ventura

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

Francis Crick

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

George Carlin

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

John le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Paul Volcker

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Lee Konitz

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

Frank Murkowski

The question is, How do you separate the needy from those who just want a $2,000 handout,

Adam Ereli

We want to find needy populations and get them there as soon as possible.