Love prefers twilight to daylight.
The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital extremities is 4, or 5, or 6," he simply looks at a cat and counts. A social scientist prefers the more long-winded expression every time, because it gives an entirely spurious impression of scientificness to what he is doing.
He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?
God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
. . . the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.
Body does what mind prefers.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct. ' Will that make you happy?