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Quotes About Preference

Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –
~ Alexandre Dumas
Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly.
~ Alexandre Dumas
though he doesn't like me, I'd trust him and his honest dislike before others who boast of devotion.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Coconnas : ...et que pour être querellé , j'aime mieux encore l'être par de jolies lèvres comme les vôtres que par une bouche de travers comme la sienne.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.
~ Alice Hoffman
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
~ Alice Hoffman
he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.
~ Alice Hoffman
Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)
~ Ally Carter
Why do the motorcyclists wear black jackets ?why not brown or blue ?
~ Alvin Toffler
Preference, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Strange, isn't it? You keep having to check how disgusting it is. Then, one day, you check and you find you actually like it. Soon after, no other drink will quite scratch that itch. I've often felt that people are the same.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.
~ Joe Hill
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
~ Joe Hill
Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from
~ Joe Hill
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
~ Joe Queenan
the absence of clear boundaries between schizophrenia and bipolar disorders has led some clinicians to prefer the term "psychosis,
~ Joel Paris
From the first time Thomas has seen him, he hadn't known who or what Marcus was, just that he wanted him. Wanted to be his. And the fact Thomas has thought of it that way should have given him a clue to the hidden craving in his own makeup. An unexpected sexual preference. Preference. There was a grimly amusing word. As if any need this elemental was a choice.
~ Joey W. Hill
I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
~ John Edensor Littlewood
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
~ John Updike
I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.
~ Alli Simpson
Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
~ Thomas a Kempis