#refer

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#another #being #better #continent #england

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction. ↗

— John Boehner

#distraction #fight #friends #iraq #often

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fame #forgotten #prefer #scorned #than

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#again #became #convincing #descent #design

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ↗

— Euripides

#clever #evil #friend #good #good man

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#beauty #better #boy #brains #prefers

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#movies

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#change things #club #costume #done #drama

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#again #been #broadcasting #called #deliberate

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers. ↗

— John Blair

#approach #between #camp #collective #consumers