We Prefer Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year… — Charlie Munger
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those… — Charles Horton Cooley
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves. — Frederick Lenz
The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to… — Gerald Stanley Lee
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. — Laurell K. Hamilton
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to… — Thomas Szasz
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our… — Cecelia Ahern
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those… — Douglas Kennedy
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we… — Rebecca Solnit
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s… — Andre Gide
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that… — Jeaniene Frost
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their… — Aristotle
I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are… — Phil Robertson

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