#prefer

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#every #every man #instead #look #man

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#anything #artist #because #collage #control

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#i #imbeciles #prefer #rest #rogues

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#bohemian #i #i am #know #now

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#concerned #far #i #ostentatious #prefer

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#choice #preferences #attitude

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#country #desire #does #done #i

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#i #itself #life #preferred #reflection