Quotes about Preferred

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late. Votes: 3

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby. Votes: 3

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Votes: 1

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Votes: 1

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. Votes: 1

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Votes: 1

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Votes: 1

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. Votes: 1

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. Votes: 1

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. Votes: 1

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. Votes: 1

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. Votes: 1

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble. Votes: 1

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. Votes: 1

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. Votes: 1

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains. Votes: 1

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private. Votes: 1

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. Votes: 1

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger. Votes: 1

I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. Votes: 1

Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird. Votes: 1

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. Votes: 1

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back. Votes: 1

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute. Votes: 1

I have preferred chloroform to cancer Votes: 0

Friends should be preferred to kings. Votes: 0

Nothing is to be preferred before justice. Votes: 0

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Votes: 0

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored. Votes: 0

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague. Votes: 0

There were few who preferred honor to money. Votes: 0

Error often is to be preferred to indecision. Votes: 0

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. Votes: 0

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity. Votes: 0

I always preferred having wings to having things. Votes: 0

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. Votes: 0

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. Votes: 0

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. Votes: 0

I've always preferred food be on the blander side. Votes: 0

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own. Votes: 0

I preferred to read than talk with the others. Votes: 0

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. Votes: 0

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised. Votes: 0

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. Votes: 0

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. Votes: 0

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people. Votes: 0

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions. Votes: 0

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. Votes: 0

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. Votes: 0

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. Votes: 0

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. Votes: 0

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. Votes: 0

I've always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable. Votes: 0

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections. Votes: 0

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. Votes: 0

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me. Votes: 0

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends. Votes: 0

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two. Votes: 0

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching. Votes: 0

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. Votes: 0

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. Votes: 0

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. Votes: 0

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Votes: 0

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. Votes: 0

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. Votes: 0

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. Votes: 0

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. Votes: 0

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church. Votes: 0

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, Votes: 0

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. Votes: 0

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. Votes: 0

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel. Votes: 0

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. Votes: 0

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier. Votes: 0

The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass. Votes: 0

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. Votes: 0

It was a really beautiful view, and Brida recalled that spirits preferred such places. Votes: 0

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. Votes: 0

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf Votes: 0

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. Votes: 0

Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. Votes: 0

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred. Votes: 0

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Votes: 0

I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals. Votes: 0

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own. Votes: 0

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. Votes: 0

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. Votes: 0

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat. Votes: 0

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier. Votes: 0

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy. Votes: 0

It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes. Votes: 0

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them Votes: 0

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis. Votes: 0

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. Votes: 0

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait... Votes: 0

No matter who wins, God is still sovereign regardless if my preferred candidate wins or not. Votes: 0

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers. Votes: 0

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie? Votes: 0

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act. Votes: 0

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Votes: 0

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done. Votes: 0

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. Votes: 0

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. Votes: 0

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. Votes: 0

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. Votes: 0

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. Votes: 0

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over. Votes: 0

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred. Votes: 0

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. Votes: 0

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible. Votes: 0

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. Votes: 0

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within! Votes: 0

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. Votes: 0

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier. Votes: 0

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Votes: 0

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. Votes: 0

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one Votes: 0

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. Votes: 0

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too! Votes: 0

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. Votes: 0

He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... Votes: 0

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. Votes: 0

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. Votes: 0

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. Votes: 0

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes. Votes: 0

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. Votes: 0

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. Votes: 0

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. Votes: 0

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual. Votes: 0

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. Votes: 0

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light Votes: 0

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores & sinners, seeing I go in for that myself. Votes: 0

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. Votes: 0

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred. Votes: 0

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. Votes: 0

You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations. Votes: 0

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins Votes: 0

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another. Votes: 0

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow. Votes: 0

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Votes: 0

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients. Votes: 0

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. Votes: 0

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred Votes: 0

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" Votes: 0

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy. Votes: 0

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. Votes: 0

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. Votes: 0

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. Votes: 0

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition. Votes: 0

(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father. Votes: 0

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. Votes: 0

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. Votes: 0

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. Votes: 0

Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business. Votes: 0

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. Votes: 0

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. Votes: 0

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. Votes: 0

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. Votes: 0

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream. Votes: 0

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. Votes: 0

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network. Votes: 0

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. Votes: 0

India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand. Votes: 0

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Votes: 0

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.) Votes: 0

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. Votes: 0

Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK. Votes: 0

She had two lips like strawberries, and the seeds gave her kisses texture. I preferred kissing her over two scoops of vanilla ice cream. Votes: 0

Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him. Votes: 0

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view. Votes: 0

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. Votes: 0

I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money. Votes: 0

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. Votes: 0

If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice. Votes: 0

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. Votes: 0

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. Votes: 0

It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate. Votes: 0

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life, and, on rare occasions, happiness. Votes: 0

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it? Votes: 0

I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles" Votes: 0

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. Votes: 0

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. Votes: 0

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable. Votes: 0

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries. Votes: 0

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. Votes: 0

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up. Votes: 0

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do. Votes: 0

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right. Votes: 0

An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred Votes: 0

Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable. Votes: 0

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. Votes: 0

Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. Votes: 0

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces. Votes: 0

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down Votes: 0

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. Votes: 0

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh. Votes: 0

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Votes: 0

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. Votes: 0

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. Votes: 0

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back Votes: 0

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions." Votes: 0

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action. Votes: 0

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys. Votes: 0

Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority. Votes: 0

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Votes: 0

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests. Votes: 0

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly Votes: 0

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything Votes: 0

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot. Votes: 0

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. Votes: 0

The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy. Votes: 0

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards. Votes: 0

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping. Votes: 0

I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim. Votes: 0

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart. Votes: 0

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power Votes: 0

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months. Votes: 0

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. Votes: 0

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing. Votes: 0

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real. Votes: 0

My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies. Votes: 0

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers. Votes: 0

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network. Votes: 0

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others. Votes: 0

I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done. Votes: 0

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. Votes: 0

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else. Votes: 0

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science. Votes: 0

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any. Votes: 0

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely. Votes: 0

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. Votes: 0

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot. Votes: 0

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred. Votes: 0

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales. Votes: 0

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one. Votes: 0

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. Votes: 0

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise. Votes: 0

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives. Votes: 0