Top 100 Prefer Quotes
#1. We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
Helmut Jahn
#2. Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.
Jane Costello
#3. If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns,
two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one of
which is water-tight. A, of course, has the good one;
Stephen Leacock
#4. I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor
Cornelia Funke
#5. It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Anita Loos
#6. As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
David S. Landes
#7. I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
Katie McGrath
#8. Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.
Mario Puzo
#9. I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.
Richelle Mead
#11. I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa Szymborska
#12. It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.
Julian Barnes
#13. The woman had decided that I was a hard-ass, one of those guys who refuse under any circumstances to do anyone a favor. But it's not true. I just prefer that the favor be my idea, and that it leaves me feeling kind rather than bullied and uncomfortable.
David Sedaris
#14. They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war.
Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.
Blaise Pascal
#15. Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.
John Mason Brown
#16. I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.
Ernie Els
#17. I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.
Addison Timlin
#18. Often our thoughts, choices and actions are not aligned to reach our desired goals and we prefer to call it destiny.
Anupama Garg
#19. I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.
Viswanathan Anand
#20. There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.
Dianna Agron
#21. You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them
Alexandre Dumas
#22. I prefer to not say anything, she wrote, there's no point adding to the pain, or adding our own little mysteries to it. As if the pain itself were not enough of a mystery, as if the pain were not the (mysterious) answer to all mysteries.
Roberto Bolano
#23. I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Ralph Barton Perry
#24. I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis
#25. inspiration is receiving a message from the Divine and then acting on it. Intention works and brings results; inspiration works and brings miracles. Which do you prefer?
Joe Vitale
#26. Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.
Robert D. Arnott
#27. -Are you always this crass?"
-"What can I say?" he replied spreading his hands wide with a beaming smile. "You bring out the best in me. Although, I'd prefer to sink my best into you," he winked.
Eve Langlais
#28. Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
Sam Altman
#29. You don't need to like me to let me fuck you but since I like you, I'd prefer it that way.
Kristen Ashley
#30. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.
George Perkins Marsh
#31. I say I write to you, but, truth be told, I prefer the American idiom: I write you. I'll write you friends say, as if, in writing, someone could be caused to appear, as if writing were a spell, some form of conjuration. So, I write you to bring you here, bring you back.
Julian Wolfreys
#32. Beautiful women like Neila are not interested in competitors. Without a doubt she would prefer a man with the means to display her beauty to its best advantage over a man whose beauty rivalled hers.
Karen Lord
#33. I prefer not to be called 'cute' or 'little,' thank you very much." He grins again. "I should get a T-shirt that says that.
Karen Kincy
#34. I don't like working in a studio, at all. I just prefer to be on location, rather than hearing the bells of the studio going off. It's like being in Las Vegas, where no one knows the time and there are no windows.
Eric Bana
#35. that may be a bit of stretch as I'd obviously prefer to play Trivial Pursuit than spend the night in a spider cave or give a hobo a rimjob, but you get the point.
David Thorne
#36. The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.
Rod Paige
#37. Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
Isaac Newton
#38. I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
Carla Bley
#39. Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.
Vicente Del Bosque
#40. Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
Thomas Pynchon
#41. An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.
Thomas Sowell
#42. The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn
#43. Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.
Walter White
#44. Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
John McWhorter
#45. I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.
I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.
Rachel E. Carter
#46. He gave her body a raking gaze. "I doona give up my secrets that easily, lass. And it takes a lot more than honeyed words to persuade me. If ye must know, I prefer to be wooed first.
Victoria Roberts
#47. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#48. I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.
Stromae
#50. I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.
Arjun Rampal
#51. Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.
Peter Withe
#53. I'd prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks. But we can't always get what we want.
Leigh Bardugo
#54. Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
William McDonough
#55. Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?"
"Does it matter?" said Wolf, tossing away his bone.
"I'm only making conversation."
"I'd prefer silence," Wolf said, a growl in his tone.
Marissa Meyer
#56. If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.
Woody Harrelson
#57. I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
Elizabeth Taylor
#58. Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt ... they work together.
Russell Banks
#59. The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel
#61. I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.
Michelle Stuart
#62. They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#63. There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
Bee Wilson
#64. I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
Marisa Tomei
#65. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Christopher Hitchens
#66. Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.
Marissa Meyer
#67. Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#68. No ... " said Professor Quirrell. "That is not why I am here. You have made no effort to hide your dislike for me, Miss Granger. I thank you for that lack of pretense, for I much prefer true hate to false love.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#69. Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and crappy food, or do you prefer to have a nice body? It depends on what you want more.
Tim Howard
#70. I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so ... interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.
Bill Cunningham
#71. I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
Raina Telgemeier
#72. I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.
Hattie McDaniel
#73. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
#74. I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Helen Keller
#75. I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy
#77. It is the wee hours of the morning, ma petite. The room service menu is somewhat limited. Jason has donated blood twice to me tonight; he needed protein." Jean-Claude smiled. "It was either take-out, or he could eat Larry. I thought you'd prefer take-out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#78. SAYING AND CONCEALING For I would prefer to have these attacks and please you, rather than displease you and not have them. - Marcel Proust in a letter to his mother
Alice Miller
#79. I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
J. Cole
#81. I prefer my lovers with a dick."
We are both in luck, because I just so happen to have one of those growing in my pants as we speak.
Aly Martinez
#82. The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.
Jack Finney
#83. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.
Alexandra Katehakis
#84. I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.
Tom Waits
#85. Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
Rebecca Stead
#86. I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#87. They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahlil Gibran
#88. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
Michel Foucault
#89. I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,
& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it
William S. Burroughs
#90. I'd prefer her story than history.
Toba Beta
#91. Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
Thomas Jefferson
#92. Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
Leni Riefenstahl
#93. My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.
Sean Maguire
#94. I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.
Thia Megia
#95. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
M.F.K. Fisher
#96. Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.
Jack Foster
#97. But Pavlov purely for a good purpose. Pavlov for friendliness and trust and compassion. Whereas you prefer to use Pavlov for brainwashing, Pavlov for selling cigarettes and vodka and patriotism. Pavlov for the benefit of dictators, generals and tycoons.
Aldous Huxley
#98. You expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily ... You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.
Ilona Andrews
#99. If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me - no good.
Aldous Huxley
#100. I prefer to spend time with you. You're the most interesting person I know.
Sylvia Day
