Top 100 I Would Prefer Quotes
#1. The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
Fanny Kemble
#2. I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of course one sentence out of every ten that comes from my mouth is probably not one hundred percent true.
Alicia Thompson
#3. I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.
Julian Casablancas
#4. I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That's not being a warmonger. It's being a realist.
Allen West
#5. I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
Graham Kerr
#6. Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE
CM Punk
#7. Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.
Alexander Dumas
#8. I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea ... I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.
Sergei Prokofiev
#9. I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
Wislawa Szymborska
#10. I don't enjoy sitting with make-up all the time and that is why I have decided to go for the natural look. Not only me, I think given a choice, everybody would prefer such a look on screen.
Katrina Kaif
#11. Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.
Christopher Hitchens
#12. I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.
Deborah Cox
#13. I relate to this story almost as I would a friend or a lover - at times I want to breathe its entire alphabet into my lungs, and at others I should prefer to throw it across the room.
Lyndsay Faye
#14. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#15. In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.
~Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
#16. To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.
Laurent Brancowitz
#17. I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
Li Na
#18. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
Humphry Davy
#19. If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense of freedom. My objective, my god ... is freedom of individuals to pursue their own values.
Milton Friedman
#20. I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.
Sara Donati
#21. Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
Milla Jovovich
#22. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
Blaise Pascal
#23. Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
in them so I would prefer to stay away.
Aamir Khan
#24. I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.
Colin Trevorrow
#25. I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
Randy Castillo
#26. If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema ...
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#27. I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
Jeff Koons
#28. I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
Seth Grahame-Smith
#29. I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.
Allison Williams
#30. She single-handedly stocked Leta's entire wardrobe, and although the clothes were flashier than I would normally prefer, I didn't see the harm in having a daughter dressed like a mini Avon World Sales Leader. Plus, we could use the money we saved on baby clothes to buy more chocolate.
Heather B. Armstrong
#31. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.
Carl R. Rogers
#32. On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!
Cristin Milioti
#33. You're unbelievable," he said in a low voice, and it wasn't a compliment. "It amazes me that there was ever a time I thought you needed toughening up."
"Would you prefer someone more ... helpless?"
Even Lucy had to admit that she had pushed him too far.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
Vladimir Putin
#36. I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.
Roustam Tariko
#37. But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.
Paulo Coelho
#38. I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!
Tommy Davidson
#39. I'm quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.
Jamie Dornan
#40. Because reason ... is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us ...
Rene Descartes
#41. It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Joseph Brodsky
#42. I rather would prefer to see the movie theatrically, which I have the ability to do.
Joel Silver
#43. If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
John Buford
#44. Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.
Ilona Andrews
#45. I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
#46. I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
Jorge Luis Borges
#47. I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
Sean Penn
#48. Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#49. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.
Norman Lock
#51. The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.
David Hume
#52. On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.
Timothy Dalton
#53. That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.
Viola Davis
#54. I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
George Duke
#55. I do not ask for your answer now." Brokenstar ignored the warrior's challenge. "You must each go away and consider my words. But bear this in mind: Would you prefer to share your prey, or be driven out and left homeless and starving?
Erin Hunter
#56. 'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'
Charles R. Swindoll
#57. In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.
Pierre Laval
#58. I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
Silvan Shalom
#59. I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.
Jacob M. Appel
#60. I have you here. Why shouldn't I be pleased? (Stryker)
I can think of a million reasons, starting with the fact that I want to kill you more than I want to breathe. As for the others, would you prefer them in order of importance or alphabetically? (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.
Julia Child
#62. The basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
Jim Crace
#64. I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
#65. I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project.
Julie Ann Emery
#66. I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.
Carol Bellamy
#67. I am not a success if all I do is fit into somebody's prescription; its better to stand out and be celebrated for being a definition. The world would prefer to take the bitter pills of an achiever than the sweet chocolates of a mediocre.
Bayode Ojo
#68. In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend ...
Nuala O'Faolain
#69. You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself.
Lois Lowry
#70. It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.
Jessica Biel
#71. Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
Michael Gove
#72. I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense ... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.
Richard Avedon
#73. I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?
Kemp Muhl
#74. Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?"
"Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.
Cassandra Clare
#75. I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
Gerald May
#76. I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai
#77. I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
Don Winslow
#78. You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."
Nick Hanauer
#79. It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.
Kristen Stewart
#80. I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.
Rand Paul
#81. For Beatrice- I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.
Lemony Snicket
#82. I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
Knute Nelson
#83. Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
Salman Rushdie
#84. I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.
Criss Jami
#85. I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#86. Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.
Henri Matisse
#87. I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
George Soros
#88. I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
Marya Hornbacher
#89. People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.
Philip Gulley
#90. If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.
Janeane Garofalo
#92. I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.
Alison Pill
#93. Where are we? What happened?" Syn pursed his lips. "Which question would you prefer I answer first?" "You pick." "Where ... I commandeered a fighter." "You mean you stole it?" "Semantics, semantics."
- Shahara & Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#94. We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.
Brittany Maynard
#95. If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
Michael Ashcroft
#96. I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.
Vivica A. Fox
#97. I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.
Greg Chappell
#98. If I had a statue on a column in London, would I prefer the columns to be so high that the statue was invisible, or low enough for the features to be recognizable? I would choose the first alternative, Dr Snow, presumably, the second.
G.H. Hardy
#99. Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist
I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it.
A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.
ASAP Rocky
#100. I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.
Adi Shamir
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