#prefer

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #hesitate #i #latter #left

Delay is preferable to error. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #preferable

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. ↗

— Mother Jones

#i #little #little children #preferred #sewing

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

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#i #maybe #me #music #prefer

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#good reputation #good time #man #prefer #reputation

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#because #best #dancer #ever #far