#preferred

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

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#encounters #had #held #i #interviews

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #i am #imposed #lifestyle #me

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance! ↗

— Kate Moss

#car #daughter #door #filling #fragrance

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#because #most #preferred #slept #way

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #behind #being #big #down

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ↗

— John Irving

#drafts #first #i #preferred #writing

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. ↗

— Mother Jones

#i #little #little children #preferred #sewing

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#many #preferred #requirement #states #transition