Prefers Quotes

#1. He feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme ...

Hilary Mantel

#2. Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Derek Walcott

#3. God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

Adrian Rogers

#4. The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur

Bernard Cornwell

#5. The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#6. Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?
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Lauren Morrill

#7. He prefers to point with a stick and will go out of his way to bring one with him, thus anticipating our test and his self-invented need for a tool. But

Frans De Waal

#8. Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

Philippe Halsman

#9. (Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Micah Mattix

#10. The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Hesketh Pearson

#11. A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Almost everyone prefers normality because normality brings comfort and security. But when you think about it, normality hinders the reason why you are on this earth.

Euginia Herlihy

#13. I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

Babe Paley

#14. You know, Stone, just because a pretty girl prefers a firefighter to you doesn't mean all the boys at that firehouse need to suffer for you bein' jilted. Far's I know, you got served this lesson at least once before. Learn, son. You may actually land a girl one day if you stop actin' like an ass.

Kristen Ashley

#15. So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

Charles James

#16. A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#17. His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

J.D. Salinger

#18. Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. 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

#20. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#21. The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.

William Ury

#22. The old Janey only drank cheap wine and light beer. The new Janey is classy, prefers cocktails, and even drinks alone.

J.C. Patrick

#23. Anybody who prefers working to being pretty and fucking a lot probably hasn't done enough of either.

Sienna McQuillen

#24. A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

#25. The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

John Updike

#26. Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers ...

William O. Douglas

#27. One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.

Eraldo Banovac

#28. Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Slash Coleman

#29. She prefers cats to dogs, which is almost worse than being a conservative.

Elizabeth Berg

#30. The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Confucius

#31. She can't even think anymore, she prefers to sing.

Elena Poniatowska

#32. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Terry Eagleton

#33. Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Nelson Algren

#34. Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. - Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers, trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers

David James Duncan

#35. Yes, he likes Alphie. Though he prefers Stormegedan Dark Ruler of all

Matt Smith 11th Doctor

#36. Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#37. The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.

Ethan Mordden

#38. The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Will Durant

#39. I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a ... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

Gale Gordon

#40. A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

J. D. McClatchy

#41. Revenge is a dish best served cold but Mama prefers to serve it with hot gravy, potatoes, and roast turkey.

Jonathan Dunne

#42. Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

David K. Shipler

#43. The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.

Suzy Kassem

#44. She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.

Margaret Atwood

#45. being an introvert is less about one's personality type and more about how someone prefers to recharge their batteries. This

Nic Williams

#46. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.

Andrew Murray

#47. And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola.

Susanna Kearsley

#48. After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.

Mike DeWine

#49. Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.

Toba Beta

#50. People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves the color green one day, only to discover on the morrow that he truly prefers blue.

Renee Ahdieh

#51. The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

#52. God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes

Ravi Zacharias

#53. [T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#54. The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful
because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Aldous Huxley

#55. Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

#56. It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Gore Vidal

#57. Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#58. When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#59. The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.

Lao-Tzu

#60. President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

Jay Leno

#61. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#62. Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.

Alexander Kotov

#63. He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Sherry Turkle

#64. The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

Desmond Morris

#65. Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints ... He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Peter Kreeft

#66. So, to all you introverts out there, do not feel embarrassed or boring for being a person who prefers things that are hygge.

Meik Wiking

#67. What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#68. The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

Matt Chandler

#69. Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

William Arthur Ward

#70. My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

Vladimir Nabokov

#71. It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

Richard B. Garnett

#72. He prefers his adventures second hand.

Sara Sheridan

#73. Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only,' finished Lupin.

J.K. Rowling

#74. God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Voltaire

#75. Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Samuel Johnson

#76. Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Marquis De Sade

#77. And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks."
"-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin.
"So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.

J.K. Rowling

#78. The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Stuart Chase

#79. She prefers books to jewels and saris. She believes as I do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#80. I'm a person who prefers to play games rather than train.

Mesut Ozil

#81. One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#82. In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Evgeny Morozov

#83. If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all.

Hans F. Sennholz

#84. Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#85. Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Ludwig Von Mises

#86. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13

Shawn Achor

#87. Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Johann Gottfried Seume

#88. The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#89. In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.

Salman Rushdie

#90. In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.

Shane Claiborne

#91. An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.

Albert Azaryan

#92. Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Karl Kraus

#93. He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#94. I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.

George Clooney

#95. He's a thousand kinds of wonderful and he prefers his men much like I do-strong and dark.

M. Leighton

#96. The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

William Gibson

#97. At the bottom of every dilemma, he says, is fear, and the brain always prefers the bird in the hand to venturing into the bush, even if you are clutching a scrawny black crow.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

#98. The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Edgar Allan Poe

#99. My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

Christopher Titus

#100. The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

John C. Maxwell