Prefer Quotes

1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,… — Carl Sagan
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. — D. H. Lawrence
He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.” “I prefer canine-American,” said Total. — James Patterson
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and… — Anais Nin
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the… — Italo Calvino
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were… — Haruki Murakami
My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd… — Janet Evanovich
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing… — Oswald Chambers
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett
For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe… — Jen Lancaster
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope… — Walter Kaufmann
I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.… — Ezra Pound
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. — Karl Lagerfeld
Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own. — Cassandra Clare
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of… — Toni Morrison
I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little… — David Lynch
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench… — Walter Moers
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which… — Yann Martel
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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