You Prefer Quotes
78 quotes by 68 authors
-
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
— Lewis Carroll
-
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
-
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
— Norman Cousins
-
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your…
— George Santayana
-
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
-
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
-
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
— Victor Hugo
-
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me…
— Kate Winslet
-
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we…
— Ethan Hawke
-
Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?
— Alicia Silverstone
-
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he…
— Sam Lipsyte
-
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
-
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of…
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
-
One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.…
— C.S. Lewis
-
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
-
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or…
— Peter L. Berger
-
Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all…
— Robert Plant
-
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your…
— Laozi
-
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the…
— B. C. Forbes
-
We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that…
— Daniel J. Siegel
Who Wrote These You Prefer Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 78 You Prefer Quotes, led by these top contributors: