Preferring Quotes

55 quotes by 54 authors

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for… — Joseph Brodsky
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to… — Corey Taylor
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… — Alexander Hamilton
These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories. — Richard Dawkins
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and thereâ€™s always the risk of disappointment. You canâ€™t really blame… — Bill Watterson
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included… — Clementine Ford
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one… — Merle Shain
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to… — Michel Onfray
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of… — Robert Paul Wolff
Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey… — Clark Gable
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described… — Fred Hoyle
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal… — Zadie Smith
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. — St. Jerome
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized… — Henry David Thoreau
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just,… — Abraham Maslow

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