Quotes About Preference

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

One always finds time for what one likes.

I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

On aurait dit qu'il aimait cette douleur, qu'il l'aimait comme il m'avait aimée, très fort, jusqu'à mourir peut-être, et que maintenant il l'a préférait à moi. 

Pero no teníamos hambre, nosotros teníamos un criado y comíamos, a veces, es cierto, porquerías, zancudas, caimanes, pero tales porquerías estaban cocinadas por un criado y servidas por él y a veces incluso no las queríamos, nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer.

Ludi não gosta de pescar, disse ela, mas podíamos ir os dois. Gostava mais de pescar no rio do que no mar, não sei porquê. - Eu também, mas é preciso uma licença para pescar nos rios. Eu também gosto mais dos rios. Talvez porque os rios sejam feitos para as esperas tranquilas, e o mar não.

They are neither happy nor unhappy. Their union is constructed upon indifference, in a way which is general and which they apprehend moment by moment, a union from which all preference is excluded. They are together, two trains which meet and pass, around them the landscape, sensuous and lushly green, is the same, they see it, they are not alone.

Manger un fruit, c'est faire entrer en soi un bel objet vivant, étranger, nourri et favorisé comme nous par la terre; c'est consommer un sacrifice où nous nous préférons aux choses.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

El crimen del loco consiste en que se prefiere a los demás. Esta preferencia impía me repugna en los que matan y me espanta en los que aman. La criatura amada ya no es, para esos avaros, sino una moneda de oro en que crispar los dedos. Ya no es un dios: apenas es una cosa. Me niego a hacer de ti un objeto, ni siquiera el Objeto amado. (p. 50)

Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

Preferiría que estuviera vivo y encarcelado que muerto como un héroe

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harías nada, porque te pasarías todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una razón por la que odias unas cosas y te gustan otras.

But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and why you like others.

it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don't know what they want to eat.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

Even that beloved British institution, the chippie, is preferable to the clown's fare; at least you are encouraging individual, local business, an entrepreneur who can react to neighborhood needs and wants, rather than a dictatorial system in which some focus group in an industrial park in Iowa decides for you what you will or should want.