#refer

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

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

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#i #know #means #myself #quiet

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. ↗

— Demi Moore

#beautiful #beautiful woman #desperately #i #look

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#assured #color #confidence #could #distinction

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#busy #day #else #enough #i

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life. ↗

— John Biddle

#almighty god #befall #dearer #disposal #glory

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#less #minorities #minority #people #reference

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers