Quotes About Preferable

#1. I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

Michael Ian Black

#2. Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Caitlin Thomas

#4. 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.

#5. Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

Orrin Hatch

#6. It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).

Norman Mailer

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

Yanis Varoufakis

#10. Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

Najib Razak

#11. Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Bernard Beckett

#12. 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

#13. There is a pervasive myth that shortbread should never bake to the point of browning. I want to persuade you that a golden tint is not only okay but preferable. The buttery flavor will become more pronounced with a bit of color, and that is as essential an element to shortbread as its friable crumb.

Elisabeth Prueitt

#14. I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.

Rachel McAdams

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God.

Ambrose Of Milan

#18. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

CrimethInc.

#19. I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

Aidan Gillen

#20. It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Robert Downey, Sr.

#21. Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.
He felt he now had the counterargument.

James S.A. Corey

#22. Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Tacitus

#23. To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.

Terrence W. Deacon

#24. For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Aristotle.

#25. Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Gordon R. Dickson

#26. All this happiness on display is suspect ... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

Ian McEwan

#27. A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

Saadi

#28. Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

Amy Dickinson

#29. A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Chanakya

#30. ...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

Jordan Castillo Price

#31. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Aristotle.

#33. Security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

#34. New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

Donald Hall

#35. Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Bell Hooks

#36. Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Philippe De Commines

#38. The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides

#39. The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

#40. Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom . Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.

James Berardinelli

#41. No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

#42. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

#43. Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding XAML is preferable, particularly because I have to publish it.

Charles Petzold

#44. Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [ ... ] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

Christopher Hitchens

#45. Saying nothing was preferable to saying too much. Well versed in the Bible, Lincoln may also have remembered the lines from Isaiah: "You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled."102

Harold Holzer

#46. However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with vermilion, his waves of red hair and his medley of colors.

Honore De Balzac

#47. A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

Bernie Sanders

#48. The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

E.F. Schumacher

#49. Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.

Courtney Milan

#50. A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.

Salman Rushdie

#51. The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

William Whipple

#52. I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

James Beard

#53. We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

Loretta Chase

#54. But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because - and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book - kids do well if they can.

Ross W. Greene

#55. Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.

Claude Cahun

#56. I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

Vasco Da Gama

#57. Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

#58. In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

Jonathan Franzen

#59. When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Sophie Scholl

#61. The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.

Stephen King

#62. There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Geoffrey Nunberg

#63. Is it more virtuous, more noble, to suffer silently with brave, graceful dignity? Or is it preferable to fight an utterly hopeless battle against the inevitability of an insignificant, mediocre, obscure, mundane existence?

Austin Scott Collins

#64. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

John Kennedy Toole

#65. A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Zebulon Pike

#66. Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you.

Abhijit Naskar

#67. I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

Condoleezza Rice

#68. I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.

Jon Lord

#69. Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.

Ann Patchett

#70. Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#71. Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Cesare Pavese

#72. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Will Rogers

#73. I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.

Joshua Cohen

#74. There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Emile M. Cioran

#75. Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.

Quentin L. Cook

#76. When escape was impractical and inaction unreasonable, attack was always preferable.

Tom Wood

#77. Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

Richard Dreyfuss

#78. When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

Jessica Fechtor

#79. Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

Minor White

#80. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

Joseph Addison

#81. Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#82. I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

Victoria Moran

#83. A square meter of earth, Dostoevski said; if all you had was a square meter of earth to stand on, and nothing around you but impenetrable fog, living would be preferable to dying.

Joe Haldeman

#84. A good action is preferable to an argument.

Voltaire

#85. if I must encode either the interface or the implementation, I choose the implementation. Calling it ShapeFactoryImp, or even the hideous CShapeFactory, is preferable to encoding the interface.

Robert C. Martin

#86. Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle.

#87. It is preferable for any individual, regardless of gender, to express his/her emotions rather than keeping them bottled within; that can have fatal consequences.

Pankaj Giri

#88. As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating gunky canapes in that cesspool of a shack you call a beach cottage.

A.C. Kemp

#89. E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.

J.A. Konrath

#90. There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is
inherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.

Mitchell Heisman

#91. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

#92. One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

Tipu Sultan

#93. Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.

Dov Davidoff

#94. It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

Henri Michaux

#95. We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.

Simon McBurney

#96. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?

Ben Okri

#97. In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven - I've done both.

Cassandra Clare

#98. Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

William Faulkner

#99. Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable.

Lauren F. Winner

#100. To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

Clive Barker