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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. -- Zubin Mehta
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -- Winston Churchill
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. -- George Stephenson
The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us. -- Niki Lauda
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. -- Maurice Wilkins
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. -- Thomas Day
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about! -- David Prowse
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716. -- Theodor Mommsen
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. -- A. S. Byatt
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press. -- Lionel Barber
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Does the business have favourable long term prospects? -- Warren Buffett
A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions. -- Rómulo Gallegos
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable. -- Seneca the Younger
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. -- Seneca the Younger
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. -- William Feather
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. -- Matthieu Ricard
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. -- William Shakespeare
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed -- Charles Darwin
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale. -- Plutarch
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. -- Edmund Burke
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men. -- Nawal El Saadawi
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you. -- Warren Buffett
Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies. -- Gideon Gono
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund. The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese - all gave money to Bill And Hillary and got favourable treatment in return. -- Donald Trump
Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions respectively. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Dreams do not bear fruits unless the weather conditions are favourable. Your positive mentality makes your dreams germinate; your actions make them to bear fruits. Take positive actions. Be positively minded. -- Israelmore Ayivor
A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit. -- William Ralph Inge

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