Quotes About Preferable

A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

On account of its name many are liable to think the loose sentence an undesirable form in good composition, but this should not be taken for granted. In many cases it is preferable to the periodic form.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

There can come a time, witnessing the decline of a loved one, when the peace of physical death starts to seem preferable to the torture of continued living.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.

All effort is pointless, but it passes the time. Reasoning is sterile, but amusing. Loving is tedious, but possibly preferable to not loving.

As Keyes noted, one bet soundly considered is preferable to many poorly understood.

Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

But let there be no doubt: he'd prefer to be handling those challenges adaptively because doing well is preferable. And because—and this is, without question, the most important theme of this entire book—kids do well if they can.

It may be unpleasant, but it's preferable to getting killed.

To rank economic activities as more or less preferable is ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by hard data.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Gelatin fed to animals, the committee reported, was found to "excite an intolerable distaste to a degree which renders starvation preferable.

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different—and, by our standards, infinitely preferable—to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Hell is not merely preferable to heaven-it's the only clear notion of an afterlife-of a goal worth striving toward-that human imagination has been able to devise.

security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The term "pattern" is preferable to "model" because a pattern is a metaphor suggesting looseness and a tendency to become unraveled.