#prefer

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#preferable #proving #than

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#county #greek #live #look #mean

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility

I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love. ↗

— Gary Numan

#else #excitement #great #hugely #i

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in. ↗

— Ben Okri

#create #imagine #live #prefer #rather

I don't have any preferences. I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#based #before #challenged #challenging #criteria

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. ↗

— Herbert Read

#equality #freedom #must #nationalism #new

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#depends #described #english #everything #eyes

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#deny #faith #good #good faith #his