Quotes About Preference

It probably took Leslie longer to type the @ symbol than it would have to type the word at, but that's the kind of thing she loves to do.

Yes," Leslie agreed. "Rondi showed excellent taste by not wearing the hat or the boots. They go so well together.

because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

What lady do you think prettiest? Said Sallie. Margaret. Which do you like the best? Jo, of course. What silly questions you ask! and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone

I don't believe it's the right sort of love, and I'd rather not try it, was the decided answer.

I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!

This suited the young lady better than twilight confidences, tender pressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye; for with Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because, when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because

Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?

We would prefer having him to come here, but don't see how he could do it without exposing the whole thing.

Will I write a check or would you prefer payment in Standard Oil shares?

It may be that Hamilton's preference for a diversified economy of manufacturing and agriculture originated in his youthful reflections on the avoidable poverty he had witnessed in the Caribbean.

When I run out of the things I love, I move on to the things I don't hate too much, and sometimes I even discover that I can love the things I think I hate.

I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got.

Is it true we'd rather be ruined than changed?

If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.

But while having some choice is generally good, it seems that having too many options tends to undermine our feelings of satisfaction, no matter which option we choose.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

You are right; you know men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; but if such persons are among my acquaintances I prefer not to know it, because then I should be forced to hate them

comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens.