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Quotes About Preference

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's.
~ Spencer Tracy
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
~ Spike Lee
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it
~ Sri Chinmoy
We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We too have been known to prefer plot to truth; to deny the evidence before us in favor of the ideas behind us; to do insane things in the name of reason; to take that satisfying step from the righteous to the self-righteous; to drown our private guilts in a public well; to indulge in a little delusion.
~ Stacy Schiff
But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.
~ Stella Gibbons
You know, you're hot and you've got that badass manly man thing going and I'm crazily attracted to you, but honestly, I suspect you're going to be a little too bossy for my tastes. Thanks for the offer on the whole love-me-die-for-me thing, but I'll pass.
~ Stephanie Rowe
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
~ Saadi
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
~ Anthony Collins
My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.
~ Christopher Titus
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
~ Richard B. Garnett
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
~ Ferran Adria
I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
~ Fiona Gubelmann
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
~ Marcel Proust
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
~ Paul Begala
The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.
~ Thomas McDonell
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
~ Tony Blair
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
~ Mark Twain
...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!
~ Terry Pratchett, Nation
Because you know, truth is, I don't give a shit about some scratched-up vinyl Rahsaan Kirk, Ornette Coleman sound-like-a-goose-trying-to-fuck-a-bicycle bootleg pressing from the rare Paris concert of 1967. I spend five minutes listening to that, I'm like to want to slap somebody. I
~ Michael Chabon
She liked his car.
~ Michael Connelly
The thing to remember is that you don't want clients from the cheap seats. You want the ones sitting on the fifty-yard line.
~ Michael Connelly
Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.
~ Michael Crichton