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Quotes About Preference

My Dear Countess: You say you would prefer discourse to gifts. I am yours to command.
~ Sherwood Smith
Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.
~ Sheryl J. Anderson
I have a beard,' Dr. Montague said, pleased, and looked around at them with a happy beam. 'My wife,' he told them, 'likes a man to wear a beard. Many women, on the other hand, find a beard distasteful. A clean-shaven man - you'll excuse me, my boy - never looks fully dressed, my wife tells me.' He held out his glass to Luke.
~ Shirley Jackson
I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.
~ Shirley Jackson
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
~ Sigmund Freud
Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me.
~ Sigrid Nunez
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
~ Simon Cowell
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
And she antagonized me by preferring the force of authority to friendliness.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Es desde el corazón de mi vida, que yo deseo, prefiero, rechazo.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Yes, we are dreaming. Men of action and enterprise are dreamers; they prefer dream to reality. But they use arms to make others dream their dreams. The victor lives his dream; the vanquished lives another's dream.
~ Simone Weil
He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying preference for the theoretically Democratic Buzz Windrip. And that preference, Doremus perceived, wasn't even a pathetic trust in Windrip's promises of Utopian bliss for everyone in general. It was a trust in increased cash for the voter himself, and for his family, very much in particular.
~ Sinclair Lewis
This is stupid. How am I supposed to predict which T-shirts I'm going to want to wear? The whole point about T-shirts is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils. Imagine if I woke up in the mood for my "Elvis Is Groovy" T-shirt and I didn't have it with me?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.
~ Greg Gutfeld
That's life again. We can't decide what we like.
~ Irina Slutskaya
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.
~ Jack Kerouac
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I do prefer being alive. Most days.
~ Ashley Capes, The Amber Isle
Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
People always give higher priority to newer one, whatever it is.. Relation or thing.
~ kurbhatt
The effect is so powerful that what you eat during the last stages of pregnancy can influence the food preferences of your baby.
~ John Medina
Is insisting that one can only be saved by the best possible god so different from insisting that one will only ride in the best possible car?
~ John Michael Greer
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
~ John Oliver Hobbes