Prefers Quotes

162 Prefers quotes by 145 unique authors

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really,… — Cassandra Clare
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed… — J D Salinger
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination… — Marquis de Sade
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers… — Jeremy Narby
It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real… — Amelie Nothomb
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. — Graham Greene
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. — Sheldon B. Kopp
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer
And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is. — Markus Zusak
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. — Edith Wharton
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for… — Hudson Taylor
You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster. — Cassandra Clare
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant… — Elie Wiesel
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the… — Saint Augustine
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll… — Voltaire
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is… — Roger Caras
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and… — Rebecca West
The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics. — Ilona Andrews

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