Preferred Quotes

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution.

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

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.

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.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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

I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.

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.