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I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx. — Lee Evans

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble. — Ronaldinho

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. — Anna Godbersen

Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying
without affection. — Jane Austen

I always said I preferred to experience something rather than obsessively record it. — Gayle Forman

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. — Edward M. Lerner

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up. — Victor Hugo

The one who preferred her own sorrows to all the joys in the world had enterd the forest and broken the spell — Sara Novic

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it. — Yukio Mishima

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church. — Florence King

There was something special about sunrise. I just preferred to experience it behind closed eyelids. — Anne Zoelle

Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term. — John Scalzi

I should have been willing to do whatever he preferred. That was how to snag a lover. — Laurelin Paige

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus

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

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. — Dominic Cooper

He preferred to ease his way into the day, whereas Amelia liked to fling herself at it full tilt. — Lisa Kleypas

I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles — Toni Morrison

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes — Rue

[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions. — C.S. Lewis

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth. — Graham Joyce

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do. — Charles Kuralt

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

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep — Gloria E. Anzaldua

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. — Anna Kendrick

The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass. — H. P. Blavatsky

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. — Victor Hugo

I have preferred chloroform to cancer — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I might be a freak, but I preferred to keep that part of my personality private. — Tara Spears

She preferred to get high on life. — Wally Lamb

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. — Francois Truffaut

As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale — Richard T. Nash

My mom said I was an escapist at heart ... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one — Amy Plum

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel. — Eula Biss

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat. — Maureen Johnson

Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation. — Tom Cox

And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman. — Loretta Chase

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie? — Marie Corelli

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean De La Fontaine

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire

Desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels, ... — Robyn Davidson

Vhalla wasn't exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people. — Elise Kova

So hot that the locals claimed a pervert was a man who preferred women to beer — Terry Hayes

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within! — Aldous Huxley

Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else.
You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing — Ezra Pound

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fortunately for Alan's sake, Frank preferred beauty over age so I had no need to defend my territory. — Nicole Castle

Occasionally I'd tune in to a music station, but I always preferred the sound of people talking, even if the subject was something I didn't care about — David Sedaris

Taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned — Walter Isaacson

The men preferred to think they worked not in a laboratory but in what Kelly once called "an institute of creative technology. — Jon Gertner

Over the last year, Simon had come to understand that the Shadowhunters preferred to believe their choices were perfect, their laws infallible. — Cassandra Clare

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions. — Roger Lewin

I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it. — Marco Beltrami

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works. — Laurie Graham

People preferred to live in a huge asylum religiously following rules written by who knows who, rather than fighting for the right to be different. — Paulo Coelho

There were few who preferred honor to money. — Sallust

She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved. — Katie Fforde

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. — Vivian Mercier

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. — George Orwell

Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage. — Magnus Flyte

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done. — Stephen Sondheim

Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic. — Terry Pratchett

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act. — Peter Stormare

Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself. — Timothy Snyder

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible. — Edward Teller

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. — Carrie Mae Weems

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. — Susan Olsen

Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light — Charles Bukowski

Being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time. — Emily Giffin

He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. — William O. Douglas

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

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. — Jacqueline Carey

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own. — Petrarch

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. — Sam Houston

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card

He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ... — Walter Pater

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

No matter who you are, this contraction is always preferred to the choppy and pretentious alternative: am I not. — Naveed Saleh

I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims. — Tatyana K. Varenko

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. — Rick Riordan

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane. — Amanda Quick

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. — Lord Haw Haw

on the other hand, is anything for which less is preferred to more. For Homer, much like most people, work is — Joshua Hall

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition. — John Adams

I preferred to read than talk with the others. — Hannah Kent

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. — Anjelica Huston

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. — Pythagoras

She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable. — Zanesh Catkin

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz

If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice. — Richmond Akhigbe

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. — Jael McHenry