Top 638 Preferred Quotes & Sayings

There were few who preferred honor to money.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

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.

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I can tell you I preferred my era. Yes, they make much more money now but I preferred my cycling. The passion for racing. I like more racing. Now riders they train all the time. Not so much racing.

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

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

I'm liking my role as left-wing is my preferred position.

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

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.

I have always preferred satin sheets.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

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

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

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

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

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

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

A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

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.

The Left have always preferred the state to the family.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

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

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

It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].

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

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.