Quotes About Preference

I wouldn't have been their choice, their first choice," Stella said. The words hung in the air between them. She hadn't been his first choice, either, and they both knew it.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

I'd just as lief hear a thing as see it any day. I saw some music once and it wasn't half as pretty to look at as it was when I heard it.

Forced to vote for a Davis, I'll take Jefferson and give you Bette.

matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything

Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.

For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any others, so that it was becoming almost a bad habit.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.

It was no doubt significant that Mary Beamish should have the novels of Miss Goudge while Piers had those of Miss Compton-Burnett,

I am in general susceptible to style.

The historian who puts his system first can hardly escape the heresy of preferring the facts which suit his system best.

Fear and horror of the franc-tireur sprang from the German feeling that civil resistance was essentially disorderly. If there has to be a choice between injustice and disorder, said Goethe, the German prefers injustice.

There had been studies years ago that showed that when you presented consumers with multifarious choices—like, say, fifteen different types and brands of jelly—they had a harder time deciding, took longer to make up their minds, and were less satisfied with their ultimate selection than those who'd chosen from a narrower band of options. Elayah feared buying the wrong jelly. Only the jelly was her life.

I think my music is like anchovies–some people like it, some people get nauseous.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"     —Rita Rudner Long