Prefer Quotes

1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country? — Jean Giraudoux
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a… — Francis Thompson
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. — Robert A. Heinlein
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball. — Michael Eisner
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if… — Ansel Adams
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed. — Thomas Pynchon
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. — Edward Abbey
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. — Edward Abbey
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs. — Woody Allen
I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served. — John Grisham
I know not which I prefer the look ofâ€”those who attack us or that which defends us! — Michael Moorcock
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is… — Mikhail Tal
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate… — Maurice Sendak
True values entail suffering. Thatâ€™s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art… — Lars von Trier
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. — Kay Ryan

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