The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
The pervert. " "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant. " "Semantics.
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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.
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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.
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
My man prefers meat over the bone.
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
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.
