Prefers Quotes

162 Prefers quotes by 145 unique authors

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. — Gore Vidal
Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's… — Russell Baker
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. — Aldous Huxley
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown
The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers. — Desmond Morris
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which… — Unknown Author
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You… — Gale Gordon
I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile. — Paul Allen
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,… — J. D. McClatchy
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. — Bill Viola
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. — Clifton Fadiman
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts… — Harry A. Blackmun

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