Quotes About Preference

Look. I know you're just trying to make friendly conversation to fill an awkward silence between strangers, but I'm not big on friendly conversation, and I don't find silences awkward. In fact I like silences and prefer strangers.

Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

If I had to choose between making love and corn on the cob, I'd pick corn on the cob.

Was it only because he happened to be the one who came along when he did? Could it have been anyone? Or was there something about him, that I liked and cared at?

I'd much rather be eating a bar of chocolate or even something healthy like a lettuce leaf alone at my desk than sitting through this silent, painful meal.

Legolas is way cuter than Aragorn, and you know it.

Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.

I want the white one

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine.

We all have a strong preference that life should be easy, comfortable, and pain-free, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with life when it isn't those things. It's just life. It's just life and it's not how you would prefer it to be, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with it. - Constance Waverly, - Waverly Radio podcast #132

I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.

As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

I would as lief look upon a piece of pastrami-stained paper as on the face of Alfred Kazin.

Positivity is far more than a mental preference. It changes your brain, literally, and it changes the people around you. It's the nearest thing we have to magic.

You can do what you want but you cannot want what you want.

Sometimes you can't choose what you love.

Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.

But I read so seldom, that I prefer books suited exactly to my taste. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life, - and the friends who are about me, whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence,- which, without being absolutely paradise, is, on the whole, a source of indescribable happiness.

In società ognuno viene preso per come si presenta; ma deve presentarsi in qualche modo. Alle persone insignificanti si preferiscono le persone scomode.

It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)

Thus, appraisal is a complex process in which two main steps can be distinguished: (a) comparing input with standards that have developed within the organism during its lifetime; (b) selecting certain general forms of behaviour in preference to other forms in accordance with the results of comparisons previously made.

Kakonomics (from the Greek, the economics of the worst) describes cases wherein people not only have the standard preference for receiving high-quality goods and delivering low-quality goods (the standard sucker's payoff) but actually prefer to deliver a low-quality product and receive a low-quality one: that is, they connive on a low-low exchange.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.