#prefer

Gentlemen prefer bonds. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#gentlemen #prefer

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#down #i #like #looked #meeting

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players. ↗

— David Moranis

#basketball #basketball team #coach #due #high

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

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

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#being #best #comes #country #earth

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