#prefer

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. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!
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— Jarod Kintz

#baseball-is-boring #boring #cats #open #preference

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#individualism #preference #independence

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#hunger #hungry #main-course #preference #inspirational

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. ↗

— Anatole France

#english #french #love #passion #prefer

What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#love #sexual-preference #weetzie-bat #love

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#i think #most #popular #prefer #than

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

— George Bancroft

#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest