I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
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.
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
Friends should be preferred to kings.
. . . but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
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.
We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.
I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.
I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
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.
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.