Prefer Quotes

1738 quotes by 1359 authors

Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be… — Geoffrey Dutton
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer… — Bernard Cornwell
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. — Phil McGraw
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all… — Rutherford B. Hayes
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than… — James Surowiecki
I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have… — Olivia Munn
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. — William Klein
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in… — Peter Singer
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Unknown Author
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Unknown Author
I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude — Thomas Jefferson
Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. — Mignon McLaughlin
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. — Victor Hugo
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is… — Bertrand Russell
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like… — John Prine

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