Top 100 Preferred To Quotes
#1. Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.
Joseph Alsop
#2. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.
Davy Crockett
#3. The Roman character had a strong streak of snobbery: effectively, citizens preferred to vote for families with strong brand recognition, electing son after father after grandfather to the great magistracies of state, indulging the nobility's dynastic pretensions with a numbing regularity.
Tom Holland
#4. The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper
#5. Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.
Joyce Banda
#6. I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#7. We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.
Maureen Johnson
#8. I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor ... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
Ramsey Campbell
#9. The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.
Susan Sontag
#10. The realization that a bad marriage might be bad enough to cause a painful split provided ammunition to those women who preferred to abstain from marriage than to enter a flawed one. What
Rebecca Traister
#11. He was never good in a fight. Preferred to sleep off the anger and pretend that everything was fine in the morning.
Alessandra Torre
#12. Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
Ray Harryhausen
#13. Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
Voltaire
#14. I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way
Giovanna Fletcher
#15. 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
#16. She preferred to be numb. And mostly these days she was. She played dead, sleepwalking her way through her life on autopilot, hardly caring whether he hit her or kissed her - it was all the same in the end.
Cleary James
#17. I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.
Michala Petri
#18. For the public, it seemed, preferred to believe that which disturbed it least and to ignore troublesome information. Which is a failing common to all nations.
M.M. Kaye
#19. Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Democritus
#20. After a while, many of the whites asked to be excused before Evelyn even asked them any questions. Most of them preferred to be excused rather than have their feelings toward Black people, Black militants, and Black Panthers questioned and explored.
Assata Shakur
#21. His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.
Roger Zelazny
#22. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#23. We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
Mike Lowry
#24. She preferred to nurture healthy relationships with a few women, like Shelby, a genuinely loyal friend, and weed out weak and petty imposters who passed through her life.
Sarah Jo Smith
#25. I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews] ... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.
Claude Lanzmann
#26. [Mama's] voice was surprisingly calm and caring. As you can imagine, this worried the girl a great deal. She'd have preferred to hear them arguing. Whispering adults hardly inspired confidence.
Markus Zusak
#27. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.
Molly Harper
#28. I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
John Hughes
#29. (On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
Lenny Kravitz
#30. I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Petrarch
#31. I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.
Jael McHenry
#32. [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
Antonin Artaud
#33. I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.
Giovanna Cau
#34. In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter how necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace less beautiful,
Hermann Hesse
#35. I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye;
"I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".
Gena Showalter
#36. External powers, rather than providing a helping hand, preferred to wield the carving knife.
Charles Emmerson
#37. When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
Paul Hirsch
#38. People preferred to live in a huge asylum religiously following rules written by who knows who, rather than fighting for the right to be different.
Paulo Coelho
#39. Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
Ezra Taft Benson
#40. Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.
James M. Cain
#41. They did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally
Viktor E. Frankl
#42. The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.
Philip Treacy
#43. [Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions.
C.S. Lewis
#44. One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.
Terry Pratchett
#45. There was something special about sunrise. I just preferred to experience it behind closed eyelids.
Anne Zoelle
#46. There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
Branford Marsalis
#47. There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.
Ken Follett
#48. I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.
Megan Fox
#49. Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.
Kim Gordon
#50. It always came to this. A demand, a need to know that the tenderness in the air was reciprocal, Still, she would not speak. She preferred to focus on enjoying the tingly feelings.
Kiini Ibura Salaam
#51. I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
Jorge Luis Borges
#52. I preferred to read than talk with the others.
Hannah Kent
#53. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
#54. You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be ...
Jaeda DeWalt
#55. Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.
Ken Follett
#56. It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.
Victoria Alexander
#57. He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
Irving Stone
#58. I had a long list of things I preferred to do over flipping burgers. Flipping burgers and teaching people to flip burgers: my fucking dream come true.
Katie McGarry
#59. Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
John Lautner
#60. He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He
Virginia Woolf
#61. The men preferred to think they worked not in a laboratory but in what Kelly once called "an institute of creative technology.
Jon Gertner
#62. I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
Philip Emeagwali
#63. As for me, I preferred to let people believe what they wanted to believe. It made life far more interesting. But my fascination with human behavior was one I kept to myself,
Laurelin Paige
#64. And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.
Loretta Chase
#65. More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
Paula McLain
#66. Diplomacy be damned, Nate preferred to say what was on his mind. 'Yes, and Aladdin might fly out your ass on his magic carpet and take you for a spin too.
Teresa Schulz
#67. I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.
Elizabeth Banks
#68. Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked
Leonor Fini
#70. An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.
Marcel Proust
#71. He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.
Graham Joyce
#72. We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
Randall Robinson
#73. What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
Aldous Huxley
#74. On behalf of the King, the guards requested that she stay in the palace rather than with the locals, which Alice declined as she preferred to be treated just like other participants. A
Nona J. Fairfax
#75. The girl galloped to catch up with him, but she didn't pause when she reached him. She preferred to form a lopsided perimeter of frantic activity around his person. Anything else might give the appearance of willing obedience, and she would do a lot to avoid that.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?
Alice Hoffman
#77. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.
Viktor E. Frankl
#78. He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.
Janet Fitch
#79. Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn't to his liking.
Haruki Murakami
#80. He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.
Roberto Bolano
#81. Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#82. There were other refugees around him experiencing the same fears and helplessness, but Litvinoff didn't find any comfort in this because there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. Litvinoff preferred to be alone.
Nicole Krauss
#83. All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.
Jurgen Habermas
#84. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.
Graham Greene
#85. The French were like spoiled young girls -- they preferred to be surrounded by pretty things at all times.
Joanna Shupe
#86. His money and lands were gone, and he did not care for the ways of people about him, but preferred to dream and write of his dreams. What he wrote was laughed at by those to whom he shewed it, so that after a time he kept his writings to himself,
H.P. Lovecraft
#87. He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films.
Robert Galbraith
#88. His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.
Charles Emmerson
#89. Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.
Silvio Berlusconi
#90. This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules.
Lois Lowry
#91. As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
Susan Shreve
#92. It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.
Jeff VanderMeer
#93. President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have it that way; if he could do something as a complete surprise, that was his preference.
Clint Hill
#94. I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres
#95. But now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.
Pauline Gedge
#96. I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
Clive Granger
#97. No matter who you are, this contraction is always preferred to the choppy and pretentious alternative: am I not.
Naveed Saleh
#98. She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.
Joyce Ballou Gregorian
#99. Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.
Simon Leys
#100. She preferred to get high on life.
Wally Lamb
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