#preferably

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buster #cameo #charlie #cos #course

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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#get #knowledge #observer #preferably #provides

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#book #cheer #cry #laugh #like

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. ↗

— David Byrne

#astronaut #i #preferably #same #secret

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected". ↗

— Julius Caesar

#every #other #preferably #unexpected #which

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. ↗

— Edward Koch

#art form #beautifully #big #canvas #deals

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#better #catholic #catholic church #church #destroy