#prefer

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#beliefs #call #constitute #embodied #i

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#class #even #fashionable #i #prefer

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

I prefer to watch people. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#people #prefer #watch

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#car #desert #doors #i #inside

Gentlemen prefer blondes. ↗

— Anita Loos

#gentlemen #prefer

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. ↗

— Courtney Love

#always #feminist #hang #i #out

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ↗

— John Irving

#drafts #first #i #preferred #writing

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter. ↗