#prefer

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

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk! ↗

— Mitt Romney

#politically #politically correct #prefer #republicans #straight

I prefer to watch people. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#people #prefer #watch

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#hermit #i #i do #impression #know

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. ↗

— Martin Luther

#any #destroys #families #greatest #humanity

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. ↗

— Billy Joel

#definitely #fighter #i #lover #prefer

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#i #prefer #realist #really #romantic

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#appeal #being #different #different way #direct