#refer

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i see #impure #neither #other

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#ask #be a man #children #did #grow

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#extermination #law #mass #prefer #self-determination

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratically #difficult #elections #incapable #part

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#any #deadline #done #even #had

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#collectively #enterprise #free #free enterprise #free enterprise system

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#english #his #mastery #minds #mislead

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#control #i #more #much #over

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#books #dogs #drink #even #germany