Prefers Quotes

162 Prefers quotes by 145 unique authors

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have… — Edward Abbey
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out… — Frances Power Cobbe
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to… — Price Pritchett
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship. — Rick Warren
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. — Tycho Brahe
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at… — Ravi Zacharias
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. — Bruce Feiler
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status… — Richard Rohr
A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always… — Antoine-Henri Jomini
An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers. — Albert Azaryan
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him. — Matt Chandler
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant. — Unknown Author
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that… — Anna Sewell
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden
Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry. — Helen Rowland
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in… — Alexander Kotov
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple. — Donald M. MacKinnon
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze… — Nelson Algren
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball. — Katarina Witt
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and… — Oscar Wilde
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton

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