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As the dark sets in deep within my spark of heart favours yours. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by anonymous 1 year ago
I've pulled in all the favours and burned every bridge I have, and now we've got this amazing line-up of fantastic comedians and it looks like it's going to be a really fun night and that we might well set a record, which is lovely, so come along. Have a pub quiz team. Support your local pub and raise a load of money for charity. – Kiri Pritchard-Mclean	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington	added by Normando 4 years ago
Fortune favours fools – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Saudi Arabia favours a gradual approach to increase output to compensate for any unplanned outages. The decision about the timing and amount of oil to raise will be decided when the ministers meet in June, the increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation. – The Gulf source	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Kenya favours the northern route through Lokichar, because as part of the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project, it would transform infrastructure and the way of life of the people in the towns and counties across its path. – Manoah Esipisu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Belgium has a central position at the heart of Europe, a small country whose local scale favours the movement of people with hostile intent. – Prime Minister Charles Michel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Adopting something like dual-class shares would be basically adding a measure that favours the families on top of what is already a favourable system for them. – Chang Sea-jin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Make some efforts on Libor, any favours they can call in whatever ... make sure you take the guys out for like a strip club or whatever the night before. – Tom Hayes	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The rise in the dollar against the yen has been steep but sentiment favours testing new highs rather than consolidating. – Kyosuke Suzuki	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The market remains relatively nervous but clearly the recent (developments) in peripheral debt markets and also in stocks at the moment favours a positive outcome. – Patrick Jacq	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee? – Omar Khayyam	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago

As the dark sets in deep within my spark of heart favours yours.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by anonymous
1 year ago

I've pulled in all the favours and burned every bridge I have, and now we've got this amazing line-up of fantastic comedians and it looks like it's going to be a really fun night and that we might well set a record, which is lovely, so come along. Have a pub quiz team. Support your local pub and raise a load of money for charity.

– Kiri Pritchard-Mclean

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

– George Washington

added by Normando
4 years ago

Fortune favours fools

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Saudi Arabia favours a gradual approach to increase output to compensate for any unplanned outages. The decision about the timing and amount of oil to raise will be decided when the ministers meet in June, the increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation.

– The Gulf source

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Kenya favours the northern route through Lokichar, because as part of the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project, it would transform infrastructure and the way of life of the people in the towns and counties across its path.

– Manoah Esipisu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Belgium has a central position at the heart of Europe, a small country whose local scale favours the movement of people with hostile intent.

– Prime Minister Charles Michel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Adopting something like dual-class shares would be basically adding a measure that favours the families on top of what is already a favourable system for them.

– Chang Sea-jin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Make some efforts on Libor, any favours they can call in whatever ... make sure you take the guys out for like a strip club or whatever the night before.

– Tom Hayes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The rise in the dollar against the yen has been steep but sentiment favours testing new highs rather than consolidating.

– Kyosuke Suzuki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market remains relatively nervous but clearly the recent (developments) in peripheral debt markets and also in stocks at the moment favours a positive outcome.

– Patrick Jacq

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?

– Omar Khayyam

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

– Charles Caleb Colton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

– Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

– Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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