I Preferred Quotes

65 I Preferred quotes by 62 unique authors

• ... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very… — Gregory of Nazianzus
• I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside… — Angelina Jolie
• I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes.… — Giovanna Cau
• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. — Ian Mcewan
• I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. — Ethel Merman
• If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred… — George Muller
• I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and… — Stevie Nicks
• I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death… — Yann Martel
• You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame… — Marjane Satrapi
• You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier. — Chris d'Lacey
• ...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty,… — Josephine Baker
• Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and… — James A. Owen
• I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient… — Sara Gruen
• At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
• I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one… — John Green
• It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me.… — Stephenie Meyer
• ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac
• Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who… — David Sedaris
• Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire
• It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow… — Margaret Mitchell
• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.… — Charles Bukowski
• The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I… — Marya Hornbacher
• I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony… — Justina Chen
• I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get… — Frederick Douglass
• More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and… — Paula McLain

Who Wrote These I Preferred Quotes

62 authors contributed a total of 65 I Preferred Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 I Preferred Quotes by Paula McLain
• 2 I Preferred Quotes by Ian Mcewan
• 2 I Preferred Quotes by Amy Plum
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Yann Martel
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Voltaire
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Stevie Nicks
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Stephenie Meyer
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Shimon Peres
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Sara Gruen
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Sandra Lerner
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Sam Houston
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Ronaldinho
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Robin McKinley
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Rabih Alameddine
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Philip Emeagwali
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Peter Abelard
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Paul Hirsch
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Mother Jones
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Marya Hornbacher
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Mary Eliza Maceda
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Marjane Satrapi
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Margaret Mitchell
• 1 I Preferred Quote by Louise Glück