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Favors Quotes

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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
Dorothy Parker

Aeschylus
“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Richelle Mead
“Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one."

"Fondue?" he asked hopefully.”
Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

Rick Riordan
“You do understand that I must find a way to return to Olympus,” I said. “This will probably involve many harrowing trials with a high chance of death. Can you turn down such glory?”

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure I can. Sorry.”

I pursed my lips. It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first—but I had to remind myself that this young man had helped me out on many previous occasions”
Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Robert Hayden
“I will no longer ask for more
than you have freely given or can give.”
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems

Bryant McGill
“If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.”
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Debasish Mridha
“Luck always favors those who are bold.”
Debasish Mridha

“Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Steven Magee
“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.”
Steven Magee

Elena Ferrante
“But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.”
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“Your flavours determine your favours.”
Lebo Grand

Adrián Lamo
“I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)”
Adrian Lamo

John Jackson Miller
“Accept no favors, and you’ll never owe any.”
John Jackson Miller, Bottleneck

“If you feel that favors can be returned then you are wrong, no matter how ever big or small it is, it can never be returned. Favor is always for lifetime...”
honeya

Kate Atkinson
“...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.”
Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

Ayn Rand
“I like to deal with somebody who has no illusions about getting favors.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“That Putin himself could not afford the cost of treatment abroad seemed to refute the claims of his critics that he, too, was personally enriching himself in Sobchak’s administration. Still, he had a quintessentially Russian understanding that assistance, in crisis or not, came through connections, the exchange of favors. He always remembered acts of loyalty like Warnig’s, just as he never forgave betrayals.”
Steven Myers

Mandy Ashcraft
“Kelvin could request favors within the administration easily, as those marionette strings looked remarkably like lines of ink that read 'Pay to the Order of'.”
Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

Frank  Sonnenberg
“You win more friends by granting a favor than by asking for one.”
Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“It was the entirely unexpected and sorely welcomed song of a single robin in the waking hours of a new morning that reminded me that this day will not be what I make it. Rather, it will be what I permit God to bring into it. And so my prayer is that my days will always be filled with robins.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Daniel Thorman
“I noted with wry amusement how quickly she’d latched on to the idea that friends did favors expecting nothing in return. I wondered whether she understood the obligation side of friendship or merely its benefits.”
Daniel Thorman, Calamity at Conclave

“Why would I do something for you. If I am not benefiting anything ? Why would I entertain you? If you are not entertaining me. As a kind person. I might do It for once , twice even three times for you for free, but I can't do it every time. That will only Imply that I am stupid and I am your fool.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I will be to you, as you are to me.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Your flavors determine your favors.”
Lebo Grand