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Quotes About Preference

chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don't know what they want to eat.
~ Anthony Bourdain
She had an ethereal, dreamy personality that was typified by her adamant refusal to wear her glasses despite terrible nearsightedness. I once asked her if she could see without them, and she said that things were very fuzzy. So why didn't she wear the glasses? 'I really do prefer the world unclear' she said.
~ Anthony Kiedis
There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.
~ Anthony Powell
In fact, she [Pamela Flitton] seemed to prefer 'older men' on the whole, possibly because of their potentiality for deeper suffering. Young men might superficially transcend their seniors in this respect, but they probably showed less endurance in sustaining that state, while, once pinioned, the middle-aged could be made to writhe almost indefinitely.
~ Anthony Powell
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
~ Anthony Powell
Choosing the type of girl one likes is about the last thing left that one is allowed to approach subjectively. I shall continue to exercise the option.
~ Anthony Powell
Genellikle görsel, iÅŸitsel ya da dokunsal stratejilerden birisini daha çok tercih ederiz. Bir kiÅŸinin temel temsil sistemini belirledikten sonra, onunla ahengi geliÅŸtirme iÅŸini temelden basitleÅŸtirmiÅŸ olursunuz. -S?n?rs?z Güç
~ Anthony Robbins
I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
~ Anthony Trollope
I would carry you home, Mary, if it would do you a service," said Frank, with considerable pathos in his voice. "Oh, dear me! pray do not, Mr Gresham. I should not like it at all," said she: "a wheelbarrow would be preferable to that.
~ Anthony Trollope
The form and face of Lady Eustace, which indeed were very lovely, were distasteful to her; whereas she delighted to look upon the broad, plain, colourless countenance of Lydia Fawn, who was endeared to her by frank good humour and an unselfish disposition. In regard to men she had never asked herself the question whether this man was handsome or that man ugly.
~ Anthony Trollope
She probably cared but little for either of them. She was one of those women to whom it is not given by nature to care very much for anybody. But, of the two, she certainly cared the most for Mr. Dobbs Broughton, — because Mr. Dobbs Broughton belonged to her.
~ Anthony Trollope
Lady Glencora in her time had wished to marry a man who had sought her for her money. Lady Chiltern in her time had refused to be Lady Fawn. Madame Goesler in her time had declined to marry an English peer.
~ Anthony Trollope
He wouldn't know what to do with himself. He hates a house full of people. And
~ Anthony Trollope
When I found that she was impatient I chose the shortest sermon for our Sunday evening's worship, to the great discomfort of my mother." Phineas wondered whether this assertion as to the discomfort of old Mrs. Kennedy could possibly be true. Could it be that any human being really preferred a long sermon to a short one, — except the being who preached it or read it aloud?
~ Anthony Trollope
She is the best of them all," he said to himself, as he refolded the letter and put it back into his desk. I am not sure that it is well that a man should have any large number from whom to select a best; as, in such circumstances, he is so very apt to change his judgment from hour to hour.
~ Anthony Trollope
Poor Eleanor! I cannot say that with me John Bold was ever a favourite.
~ Anthony Trollope
She felt sure that she never could love him. Had it been on the cards with her to love any man as a lover, it would have been some handsome spendthrift who would have hung from her neck like a nether millstone. This
~ Anthony Trollope
Perhaps he doesn't mind it," said Mr. Camperdown to himself, "but I wouldn't marry such a woman myself, though she owned all Scotland.
~ Anthony Trollope
All preferments (of the emperor) were dependent upon the outstanding size of member of those recommended. He appointed as collectors of the five per cent inheritance tax a muleteer, an athlete, a cook and a locksmith.
~ Antonin Artaud
think I'd prefer tomorrow morning.
~ Arbinger Institute
But mostly I learned to cook from my mother. There weren't any blintz-style lessons. I absorbed her preferences and prejudices over the years the way that I absorbed her gestures and her speech pattern, until ultimately my cooking tastes slightly but unmistakably like hers.
~ Ariel Levy
Hay 3 cosas que siempre vamos a preferir: lo bueno, lo útil y lo placentero.
~ Aristóteles
All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle