Prefers Quotes

162 Prefers quotes by 145 unique authors

The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers. — Milton H. Erickson
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They… — Lord Acton
. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor. — Vincent de Paul
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device… — Maimonides
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts. — Adrian Rogers
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another — Charles James
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life? — Slash Coleman
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing… — Peter Thiel
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. — Jean de la Bruyere
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. — Hesketh Pearson
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

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