Quotes About Preference

Hobson's choice

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy.

I'd like mornings better if they started later.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes].

And it's so natural that a man shouldn't have taken so many chocolates as a woman.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Do we choose who we love?

The food at the Mandarin Club was not good, but the members liked it that way. It reminded them of school.

I prefer to use my name from your world.' he said. 'I'm just Matt'.

Of course, he didn't go in for ordinary stuff like Dulux or anything like that. He had to have those poncey colours from Farrow & Ball. Eighty quid a tin with names like Vert De Terre, Ivy and Arsenic.' He spat out the names with evident distaste.

Alex took a sip. It wasn't Coke. It wasn't even Pepsi. He recognized the over-sweet, slightly cloying taste of supermarket cola and wished he'd asked for water.

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

You can kiss me if you like," she said. Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.