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Quotes About Preference

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.
~ Suzy Menkes
I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.
~ Mark Helprin
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John F. Kennedy
She made it plain that she liked Scotland much better than England. No comment.*
~ John Farman
Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.
~ John Feinstein
People, through finding something 'beautiful,' think something else 'unbeautiful
~ John Gall
I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...
~ John Geddes
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
~ John Green
To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.
~ John Hafnor
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
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
~ John Legend
René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.
~ John Lloyd
Mrs. Elliot Likes Boys
~ John Locke
If people are either mountain people or ocean people then I'm a mountain person. I love the ocean, the few times I get a chance to see it, but I'm a mountain girl.
~ John Marsden
Folded-over chips are preferable to flat chips—why is that? It's one of life's ten million mysteries.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Harper prefers winter, when it gets dark at three thirty and is pitch black by the time she finishes her shift. The summer sun reveals too much.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.
~ Elise Broach
You paid your money and you picked your poison.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I suspect he would rather have lived.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.
~ Elizabeth Ironside
It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Ganz allgemein sind mir Bücher inzwischen lieber als Menschen und Menschen in Büchern lieber als Menschen, die woanders sind.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard