#prefer

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. ↗

— George Muller

#counsel #declarations #did #fellow-men #god

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. ↗

— Themistocles

#i #likely #man #money #preference

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #behind #being #big #down

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#awareness #breath #consciousness #despite #element

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#come #i #live #must #my time

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#i #laughing #might #more #occasion

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#folly #i #indifference #prefer #wisdom

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#call #comes #dammed #degree #happiness

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#cracked #cut #dark #dark side #empty