Prefer Quotes

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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't… — Paul Hawken
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of… — Bill Bradley
Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen-I don't throw anything away. I… — Cate Blanchett
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.… — Raymond Chandler
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer… — William S. Burroughs
Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be… — William Shakespeare
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a… — Daniel Day-Lewis
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer. — Heraclitus
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me. — Thomas Jefferson
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Seneca the Elder
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober. — Gertrude Stein
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. — Mark Twain
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I… — Therese of Lisieux
I prefer to see with closed eyes. — Josef Albers
I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous. — Jamie Oliver

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