Quotes About Preference

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.

Never assume you are not attractive enough, and therefore you have to overcompensate or chase a man. Taste is subjective.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

Livia, on the other hand, actively preferred literary characters to real-life acquaintances: Tom Sawyer stayed forever young, Viola always retained her spunk, and Mr. Darcy could never turn out to be a hypocrite who was also disappointing in bed.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

People prefer remembering to imagining. Memory deals with familiar things; imagination deals with the unknown. Imagination can be frightening—it requires risking a departure from the familiar.

I have met ghosts who attract me, and, following my habit in the material world, I have avoided the ghosts that bore me.

As a society we have grown to prefer the easy over the difficult, the quick over the slow, the cheap over the costly—and those choices are not often to the benefit of nature. Lord

Please don't try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type.

God liked eggs in the morning. It didn't really matter which kind. Poached, fried, scrambled. Sometimes he had them bring him what he called a bird's nest: a piece of toast with an egg stuck in the middle.

His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know.

If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.

There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted.

The Professor doesn't have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I'd even settle for being called Chard.

is plain yuck.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.