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Quotes About Preference

Gold never doubted that racial discrimination was atrocious, unjust, and despicably cruel and degrading. But he knew in his heart that he much preferred it the old way, when he was safer. Things were much better for him when they had been much worse.
~ Joseph Heller
Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Amy decided she was never watching Animal Planet again.
~ Jude Watson
Lau­ren, he began gravely, I would like four daugh­ters with wob­bly blue eyes and stu­dious horn-rimmed glasses on their lit­tle noses. Also, I've be­come very par­tial to your honey-col­ored hair, so if you could man­age…
~ Judith McNaught
Wear or wrap?
~ Judy Blume
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after.
~ Wallace Stevens
Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
~ Walter E. Williams
Quién dijo que tus preferencias deben cambiar porque tu ex ya no te acompaña?
~ Walter Riso
At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.
~ Walter Terry
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
~ Warren Buffett
Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?
~ Wendy Doniger
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
~ Wendy Wax
ladies' clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.
~ Wendy Wax
I had one celebrity, who shall remain nameless," Nicole said when pumped for stories about her high-profile clients, "who wouldn't consider dating anyone who'd ever eaten a green M& M.
~ Wendy Wax
A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
~ Whitney Balliett
A Bargain's Not A Bargain If Nobody Likes It.
~ wichypoo
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
~ Will Durst
You just like winning and dislike losing—and you almost certainly dislike losing more than you like winning.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Decision makers tend to prefer the sure thing over the gamble (they are risk averse) when the outcomes are good. They tend to reject the sure thing and accept the gamble (they are risk seeking) when both outcomes are negative. These conclusions were well established for choices about gambles and sure things in the domain of money.
~ Daniel Kahneman
People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Because of the coincidence of two planes crashing last month, she now prefers to take the train. That's silly. The risk hasn't really changed; it is an availability bias.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Asked whether they would rather eat an organic or a commercially grown apple, most people prefer the "all natural" one. Even after being informed that the two apples taste the same, have identical nutritional value, and are equally healthful, a majority still prefer the organic fruit. Even the producers of beer have found that they can increase sales by putting "All Natural" or "No Preservatives" on the label.
~ Daniel Kahneman