#preferred

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#answers #because #consideration #easy #educated

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#attraction #bette #bette davis #could #davis

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#although #bit #chat #decide #did

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ambition #appetite #assert #continue #earn

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#comedy #consensus #general #preferred #softer

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#i #lot #medium #pen #preferred

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#bohemia #cost #effort #here #huge

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #converted #ever #i #poor

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#case #cities #decent #decent standard #doing