Preferred Quotes

320 Preferred quotes by 288 unique authors

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and… — Neal A. Maxwell
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life… — John Cassian
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. — Carrie Mae Weems
I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual. — Rupert Grint
Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases… — Jeffrey Bland
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. — Margaret Thatcher
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an… — Gay Talese
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the… — Samuel Alito
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do… — Swami Vivekananda
I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but… — Samuel Johnson
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor:… — Alison Lurie
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other… — Benjamin Franklin
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… — Jorge Luis Borges
A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and… — Sarah Palin
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. — Aleksandar Hemon
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was… — Leo Tolstoy
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why -… — Alistair Cooke
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything… — Lord Chesterfield
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… — Julian Barnes
I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred… — Eleanor Mondale
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… — Gerhard Richter

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