Preference Quotes

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans.

Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Jan Morris prefers this for himself.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear.

I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter;

or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word.

And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

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.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'.

There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

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

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup.

Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best