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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. -- W. C. Fields
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment. -- Ernest Lawrence
I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. -- James Monroe
America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable. -- Wojciech Jaruzelski
The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull. -- Jose Rizal
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. -- George William Curtis
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. -- Erich Fromm
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing. -- Joyce Meyer
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
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. -- Remy de Gourmont
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. -- Dennis Hastert
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. -- Baltasar Gracian
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. -- Charles Koch
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching. -- Mark Spitz
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. -- George C. Williams
From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves. -- James Monroe
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. -- Charles Simmons
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. -- Mercy Otis Warren
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable. -- Francois Hollande
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment. -- Richard Leakey
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. -- Elihu Root
To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards. -- Charles J. Shields
I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front. -- David Rudisha
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth. -- Jeremy Grantham
Chaos is favorable to creativity. -- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
He believes that "To persevere is favorable." -- Paulo Coelho
Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results. -- Creflo A. Dollar
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. -- Ambrose Bierce
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'. -- Amit Kalantri
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. -- Cary Grant
The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities -- Ole Hallesby
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future. -- Jeff Blackman
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation. -- Joseph Conrad
It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. -- Seneca the Younger
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. -- Seneca the Younger
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious. -- V. Raymond Edman
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. -- Andrew Lam
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. -- John Rawls
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed. -- Marilyn vos Savant
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind. -- Seneca the Younger
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips. -- Rich Lowry
The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows. -- Robert J. Samuelson
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. -- Adolf Hitler
Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market. -- William Poundstone
You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right. -- David Gemmell
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. -- Benjamin Graham
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. -- Ernest K. Gann
There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. -- Napoleon Hill
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. -- Aristotle
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. -- Nelson Mandela
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. -- Seneca the Elder
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances. -- Napoleon Hill
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. -- Baltasar Gracian
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. -- Oscar Wilde
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable. -- Joel Fuhrman
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. -- George Santayana
You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. -- Milton H. Erickson
Oh, be assured fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him. -- Pope Francis
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. -- Herbert Hoover
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber. -- Al Franken
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. -- Vincent de Paul
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings. -- Sherry Thomas
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. -- Paul Lansky
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains. -- Albert Einstein
Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. -- Sun Tzu
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. -- George Santayana
If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction. -- Richard Driehaus
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. -- Samuel Johnson
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too. -- Henry Mitchell
Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy. -- David Hume
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. -- Rosalia de Castro
When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions. -- Suzy Kassem
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. -- Charles Darwin
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse. -- Livy
I wanted to make love in the rain, but owing to unfavorable (or, rather favorable) weather conditions, I took to the shower as a suitable substitute. -- Jarod Kintz
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. -- Seneca the Younger
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. -- Richard Hooker
For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become. -- Alain Resnais
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. -- Bertrand Russell
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. -- George Stephenson
Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts -- Bryan Miller
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. -- Andre Breton
A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often. -- Michael Davidow
There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions. -- Otto Ohlendorf
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world. -- Dorothy Richardson
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective. -- Jacques Ellul
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. -- William Faulkner
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply. -- Luther Burbank
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. -- William Frederick Book
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name! -- Abraham Kuyper
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another. -- D.T. Suzuki
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present. -- Grenville Kleiser
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse. -- Jack Vance
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Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not. -- Laurence Sterne
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame. -- Charles August Lindbergh
A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects. -- George Washington
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men. -- David Hume

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