Top 100 Prefers Quotes
#1. I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
Franz Grillparzer
#2. To assist us in climbing the mountains is marvelous. To level the mountains and altogether eliminate the climb is miraculous. And at times I think that God prefers the latter because it emboldens us to face the former.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. Here suicide and murder are two aspects of a single
system, the system of a misguided intelligence that prefers, to the suffering imposed by a limited
situation, the dark victory in which heaven and earth are annihilated.
Albert Camus
#4. Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell
Patricia Frances Rowell
#5. He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
Rick Warren
#6. Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people ...
Charles Fourier
#7. The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
Milton H. Erickson
#8. There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls ... seem to like the idea of using colors.
Reem Acra
#10. The other view is the religious view.* According to it, what is behind the universe is more like a mind than it is like anything else we know. That is to say, it is conscious, and has purposes, and prefers one thing to another. And
C.S. Lewis
#11. The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton
#12. Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Jaron Lanier
#13. A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows she prefers different.
Louis L'Amour
#14. The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
#15. Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.
Kirkland Ciccone
#17. And prefers to sit out a problem rather than sweat out a solution. That nonchalant and perfunctory attitude is a powerful tool of satan in his efforts to retard the growth of God's Kingdom.
Myles Munroe
#18. I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?
Cassandra Clare
#19. The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death ... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Epicurus
#20. A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
Donald M. MacKinnon
#22. 3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
Gavin Hood
#23. A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
Clarence Thomas
#24. Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
Peter Thiel
#25. Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Paul Tillich
#26. The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
#27. A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
Sallust
#28. No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
Herman Melville
#29. Artists hide their identities in the brushstrokes of their paintings, the verses in their cantos, and the sentences in their novels. The true face of an artist is never on his face and this is what he prefers. Others misunderstand this displaced melancholy with an absence of melancholy.
Bruce Crown
#30. Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.
Roma Downey
#31. There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.
John Dickson
#32. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
John Dryden
#33. Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
Malin Akerman
#35. Like a dog, I have pack needs; like a cat, he prefers a quieter house. As long as he is married to me, his house will never be quiet.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#36. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
Karl Popper
#37. An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#38. Today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private ...
John Geddes
#39. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#41. Merlin prefers to think of space as the regions between all the particles of all the atoms of the universe.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.
Cyprian
#43. For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.
Amber Heard
#44. Recall, now, that the kingdom of God is the range of his effective will: that is, it is the domain where what he prefers is actually what happens. And
Dallas Willard
#45. Do you prefer to be called Richard or Dick?"
"Ric."
"Dick? I'll make a note of that on your file." I spoke aloud as I wrote. "Patient prefers to be called Dick.
Zathyn Priest
#47. SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.
Mirriam Neal
#48. People want to be with the sunflowers, those who rise and face the sky. Who prefers fungus, moss, things that grow in the world's dank and shadowed places?
No one.
Lia Riley
#49. The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Augustine Of Hippo
#50. It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#51. Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
Seneca.
#52. The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#53. ...she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...
J.M. Coetzee
#54. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#55. It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so
Matthew Kelly
#56. Katherine Sarafian, a producer who's been at Pixar since Toy Story, tells me she prefers to envision triggering the process over trusting it - observing it to see where it's faltering, then slapping it around a bit to make sure it's awake.
Ed Catmull
#57. The power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
Elizabeth Bowen
#58. Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Anna Sewell
#59. What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.
William Faulkner
#60. There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
Owen Barfield
#61. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.
Jeremy Narby
#62. Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.
Amor Towles
#64. A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
#65. Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks.
Tracy Chevalier
#66. When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.
Harry A. Blackmun
#67. Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#68. The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#70. A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
Abigail Disney
#71. The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett
#72. Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.
Penn Jillette
#73. He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
Maria Goretti
#74. Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?
Karl Malone
#75. You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.
Cassandra Clare
#76. Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand and appreciate the qualities a visionary director needs to create an otherworldly adventure.
Richard Corliss
#77. 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
#79. He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
J.K. Rowling
#80. There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne
#81. Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.
Elie Wiesel
#82. Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
Thomas Merton
#83. Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.
Mason Cooley
#84. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon
#85. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
#86. Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
J.K. Rowling
#87. He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#88. The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#89. If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.
Barbara Eden
#90. Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
Helen Rowland
#91. One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
P.G. Wodehouse
#92. But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, "Here's who I am," and that is where most improvement has to begin.
Anne Lamott
#93. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
Peter Kreeft
#94. One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Clifton Fadiman
#95. America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
Koren Zailckas
#96. The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't.
Richard Asher
#97. My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
Shakira
#98. Luck prefers risk-based mindset.
Toba Beta
#99. She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.
Barbara Trapido
#100. What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Voltaire
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