#refer

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

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#points #principal #reference #republic #unity

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

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 prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#leave #paintings #prefer #speak #themselves

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#clean #comedians #decided #decision #early

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

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

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#becomes #ceases #eventually #first #genre