#favors

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

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ↗

— Horace

#fool #fortune #makes #much #she

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. ↗

— Hans Kung

#favors #give #roman #way

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#agents #asia #became #cia #close

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#how #knows #most #person #receives

Fortune favors the brave. ↗

— Terence

#favors #fortune

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#charge #committed #defend #destinies #enabled

Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one." "Fondue?" he asked hopefully. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#favors #humor #sydney-sage #humor

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. ↗

— Mother Jones

#alone #believe #committed #either #ever

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase. ↗

— Dick Morris

#anyone #backs #cut #democrats #elect