Preferred Quotes

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

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.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

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.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

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.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

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