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Quotes About Preference

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
~ George Eliot
I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
~ George Eliot
Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to faint meat, Named idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flattered, And froth with mean self-lauding lies. Serve warm: the vessels you must choose To keep it in are dead men's shoes.
~ George Eliot
You shall have whatever you like,' said Grandcourt. 'And nothing that I don't like? - please say that; because I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like,' said Gwendolen, finding herself in the woman's paradise where all her nonsense is adorable.
~ George Eliot
Tis what i love determines how i love
~ George Eliot
Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.
~ George Eliot
Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless.
~ George Eliot
we are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us
~ George Eliot
On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent
~ George Eliot
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had *preference* for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
~ George Eliot
I rather like a haughty manner. I cannot endure a rattling young man.
~ George Eliot
If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.
~ George Eliot
I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.
~ Gilbert Hernandez
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
~ Brian McBride
I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
~ Eliza Doolittle
Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.
~ Kajol
I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I was in 'Betty and Veronica,' even though I liked those as well.
~ Lynda Carter
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
~ Sean Connery
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.
~ Phil Robertson
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
~ David Linley
I certainly grew up in coastal New Hampshire, but I prefer to play in the woods than go to Hampton Beach or whatever.
~ Robert Eggers
I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites.
~ Colin Firth
Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.
~ Colin Trevorrow