#favor

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#cards #favorite #flipping #gambling #keep

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#buy #favored #forced #join #members

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#cell research #cloning #creating #embryos #favor

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. ↗

— Elihu Root

#assemblage #common #common faith #convincing #exhortation

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

#cure #discard #error #expect #experience

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#generally #local #newspapers #policy #politicians

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#address #also #capability #encourage #favor

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#conditions #creates #desires #energy #environment

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally