Prefer Quotes
1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors
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Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.
— Dan Harmon
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
— Aldous Huxley
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their…
— Aristotle
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Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
— Croesus
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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to…
— Bertrand Russell
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
— Herbert Agar
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..
— Stanislaw Lem
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All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do.…
— Unknown Author
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's…
— Anais Nin
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Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.
— Drake
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
— Zooey Deschanel
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A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go…
— Derek Sivers
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I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.
— Didier Drogba
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My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then…
— Tracy Chevalier
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I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.
— Clive Standen
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After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that…
— Nevil Shute
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I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort…
— Gregory Maguire
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Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes…
— John McWhorter
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have…
— Fiona Gubelmann
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is…
— Saint Ignatius
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I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.
— Lauren Lee Smith
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