#prefer

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

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. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#any #deadline #done #even #had

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#every #every man #exercise #judgment #man

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#excess #great #great mind #greatness #measure

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

— Herbert Simon

#action #aimed #changing #courses #designs

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#comes #god #i #more #nearly

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle. ↗

— Jeff Smith

#arm #chinese #eating #except #i

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#games #hated #i #never #out

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty #i #i do #just #know