#prefer

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#always #bags #because #came #children

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#forget #golden #greatness #history #march

Gentlemen prefer bonds. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#gentlemen #prefer

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. ↗

— Moliere

#i #pleasant #prefer #vice #virtue

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. ↗

— Moliere

#everyone #founded #high #hold #must

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#certain #eat #foods #i #just

I still prefer horses to human beings. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#horses #human #human beings #i #prefer

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. ↗

— Li Na

#family #friends #good #good friends #i

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only