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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
Dreams
Those
Visions
Dreamer
Without
Lord
Than
Prefer
Realized
Among
Humblest
Desires
I prefer face-to-face conversation as opposed to texting. You need to go out of your way to spend good time with one another; you need to have a date night. Whether you have kids or a career or whatever, for a relationship to thrive, it's about making time for each other.
James Marsden
Time
Good
Relationship
You
Conversation
Thrive
Good Time
Whatever
Other
Spend
Way
Kids
Out
Face-To-Face
About
Date
Another
Making
Opposed
Go
Texting
Whether
Prefer
Your
Each
Career
Night
Need
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Andrew Wyeth
You
Winter
Fall
Bone
Beneath
Something
Structure
Feel
Waits
Story
Prefer
Landscape
Show
Whole
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics
Country
Betray
Either
Prefer
Electorate
Necessary
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
Love
Failure
Mistake
Joy
Symptom
Hateful
Triumph
His
Accomplishment
Very
Child
Children
Want
Loved
Prefer
Much
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
Education
Because
Educated
Been
Prefer
Reason
Company
Sufficiently
Peasants
Incorrectly
I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.
Mick Mars
Sickness
Sick
Others
Although
Private
Just
Prefer
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
Good
Man
Injustice
Good Man
Evil
Defeat
Would
Than
Prefer
Means
Defeated
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant
Love
Best
Respect
Trust
Courage
Feedback
Focus
Tough
Others
Pleasant
Critical
Best Interests
Give
More
Givers
Long-Term
Come
Like
Knowing
Hear
Truly
Offer
Prefer
Them
Might
Interests
Acting
Productive
Less
Even
Need
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
Sometimes
Rest
Imbeciles
Take
Because
Rogues
Prefer
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Allen West
Great
Freedom
Tyranny
Will
Become
States
More
Fertile
American
Prefer
Ground
United
United States
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
Ben Okri
You
Suffering
World
Live
Imagination
Rather
Begin
Than
Prefer
Realize
Create
Imagine
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
Word
Promises
Long
Direct
Implement
Always
Plain
Prefer
Them
Keep
Vague
'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'
Charles R. Swindoll
You
Doctor
Church
Clown
Would
Dress
Vomit
Like
Look
Heard
Office
Bank
Want
Prefer
Ask
Much
Really
Your
Why
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
Kate Flannery
You
Think
Genetic
Genetics
Sort
Irish
Just
Being
Cloudy
Prefer
Rainy
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll
You
Better
Late
Never
Proverb
Than
Form
Which
Prefer
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
Good
Nature
Man
Will
Evil
Human Nature
Evils
No-One
He
Greater
Human
Prefer
Might
Choose
Less
Compelled
Two
Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.
Richard Branson
You
Organization
Criticism
Employees
Way
High
High Level
Bet
More
Tends
Devastating
Lead
Employee
Always
Praise
Doing
Same
Prefer
Them
Choose
Right
Level
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
Robert Grosseteste
God
You
Will
Pleasure
Those
All Things
Shall
Know
Household
Faithfully
Often
Against
Prefer
Your
Who
Serve
Things
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Virtue
Silent
Concerned
As Far As
Vice
Prefer
Far
Ostentatious
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Character
Unknown
Those
Would
Generations
Which
Happiest
Prefer
Who
Services
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
Clouds
To Be Honest
Mystic
Real
Real Thing
Nostalgia
Prefer
Thing
Honest
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
Good
People
Criticism
Few
Would
Praise
Few People
Deceives
Prefer
Them
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Minds
Syntax
Those
Weak
Weak Minds
Sloppy
Vocabulary
Only
Writer
Mislead
Advertisement
Mastery
His
Thank
Prefer
Themselves
English
Who
Uses
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great
Mind
Sign
Great Mind
Excess
Greatness
Prefer
Dislike
Measure
Things
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
Home
Angry
Man
Woman
Happy
Made
Would
Come
Bed
Than
Prefer
Neatly
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