A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
Samuel Alito

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount

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.
Marilyn vos Savant

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
John Nelson Darby

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
Levon Helm

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Naguib Mahfouz

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
John Hughes

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
Jeremy Northam

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
Richard Roxburgh

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
Robert Ludlum

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
John Blair

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
Ethel Merman

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
Stevie Nicks