Top 100 Preferable To Quotes
#1. Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.
John Adams
#2. The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Benjamin Tucker
#3. I believe Western culture
rule of law, universal suffrage, etc.
is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
Mark Steyn
#4. Anything would have been preferable to that one moment when you find your reality has just been blown to pieces and would never be the same again.
Rose Wynters
#5. I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."
"How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
Mary Astell
#7. Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.
Mark Lawrence
#8. If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.
Rush Limbaugh
#9. Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.
Cody McFadyen
#11. Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?
Noam Chomsky
#12. As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
Barbara Hambly
#13. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.
Deanna Raybourn
#14. Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
Ferran Adria
#15. Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.
Joan Collins
#16. I'm sometimes shocked by the way scientists huddle behind closed doors to discuss important research results without informing the public about them at all. Academic caution is often preferable to premature publication, but fear can also destroy opportunities.
Giulia Enders
#17. Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.
Roland Barthes
#18. I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
#19. You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.
Andrew Solomon
#20. With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
Molly Ivins
#21. Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
Christopher Paolini
#22. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#23. Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.
George Packer
#24. I have come to understand that it is far preferable to know that we are living our own destiny, a destiny which was authored by God, our Father.
Robert Bernecker
#25. Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?
Tom Hodgkinson
#26. The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
Anthony Lane
#28. A human God. How preferable to an invisible God, I thought, one you're not even sure exists. I was never taught basic math, but by the time I figured out how to finger count, I deduced that Charlie was around my age.
Stephanie Oakes
#29. The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Peace is far more preferable to war. [ ... ] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [ ... ] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .
Barack Obama
#31. Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.
John Zakour
#32. Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of land, The play of the muscles in one's arms and shoulders, and the feel of palm against worn wood, are preferable to glancing at a speedometer
Richard Proenneke
#33. This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The
Thomas Harris
#34. I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.
Sarah Caudwell
#35. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.
Dana Stabenow
#36. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#37. Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.
Henry Hazlitt
#38. Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude
Aung San
#41. I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
Pierre Laval
#42. It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
Gore Vidal
#43. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
Dennis Stock
#44. After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.
Josemaria Escriva
#45. For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.
Lorrie Moore
#46. Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker
#47. So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
Sun Tzu
#48. Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.
Shalom Auslander
#49. We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
George R R Martin
#50. Miss Hepplewhite looked pained.
"Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.
Jennifer L. Holm
#52. God Almighty, I love life. Even this vile place, where the trees are shattered stubs and where nothing grows but craters, even the sights, scents, sounds, and stirrings of this place are preferable to the unchanging nothingness of the Great Darkness.
Dan Simmons
#53. I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.
Jojo Moyes
#54. A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran
#55. Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.
Arlaina Tibensky
#56. That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
Charles Inglis
#57. As was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained.
Charles Frazier
#58. She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.
Karen White
#59. I think the last dinner was preferable to this one. At least Raven was there. And Lucien.
Amy Ewing
#60. That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
Saadi
#61. A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.
Gretchen Rubin
#62. Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...
Jessica Gadziala
#63. It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
Roald Dahl
#64. The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.
John Wesley
#65. If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.
Orestes Brownson
#66. It is my belief ... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
J.K. Rowling
#67. The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
Erich Fromm
#68. We have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course, we took some bold steps and often did things with much single-mindedness; but this is surely preferable to never putting one's convictions to the test, for lack of will or courage.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#69. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen.
Mark T. Sullivan
#70. Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
Laurie Graham
#71. Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard Steele
#72. I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.
Salman Rushdie
#73. At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
Jenny Holzer
#75. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
George Mason
#76. And you know what the truly sad thing is, Etta?" Sophia whispered. "If he'd asked, if he'd put his case forward, Grandfather would have considered it. I know he would have. Because being born a bastard in this family is still preferable to being born a girl.
Alexandra Bracken
#77. You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters," he raged, at one point in their conversation ...
"Naturally," Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. "It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.
Paul Bowles
#78. For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#79. A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
Boris Beizer
#80. The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.
Barbara Kingsolver
#81. On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different - and, by our standards, infinitely preferable - to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.
Milton Friedman
#82. Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
#83. The scrutiny was smothering. Right now it seemed that being Vendan within these outpost walls was preferable to being the impudent royal who had abandoned their precious prince at the altar.
Mary E. Pearson
#84. good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
Donald J. Trump
#85. He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery ... No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.
Harriet Jacobs
#86. I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell
#87. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#88. It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
Saint Augustine
#89. There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times.
John Green
#90. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
Caitlin Thomas
#91. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.
Aristotle.
#92. Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Orrin Hatch
#93. It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).
Norman Mailer
#94. That's right, I'm a reclusive pervert, and I make no apologies for it. And, giving the matter some thought, a reclusive pervert is much preferable to an extroverted pervert.
L. H. Cosway
#95. Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.
Allan Kardec
#96. Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
Najib Razak
#97. Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
Bernard Beckett
#98. Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.
Gloria Steinem
#99. The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation - that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
#100. She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.
Christina Baker Kline
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