Quotes About Preference

The trouble was that with all these options available to me now, I was no longer sure that "regular" jeans were what I wanted. Perhaps the easy fit or the relaxed fit would be more comfortable.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Because it's a poor tradeoff to add complexity for dubious performance gains, a good approach to deep vs. shallow copies is to prefer deep copies until proven otherwise.

Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?

Zimbardo's Stanford colleagues Jennifer Aaker and Melanie Rudd found that an experience of timelessness is so powerful it shapes behavior. In a series of experiments, subjects who tasted even a brief moment of timelessness "felt they had more time available, were less impatient, more willing to volunteer to help others, more strongly preferred experiences over material products, and experienced a greater boost in life satisfaction.

The asymmetry has been confirmed in the lab by showing that people will take a bigger gamble to avoid a sure loss than to improve on a sure gain

Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

For she had eyes and chose me.

I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.

What does America love more than one white male?

I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't.

I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I do not love fiction, I love history.