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Quotes About Preference

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
~ Blaise Pascal
They prefer death to peace, others prefer death to war. Any opinion can be preferred to life, which it seems so natural to love dearly.
~ Blaise Pascal
The Genovese story has been used to highlight the fact that for many it is preferable to avoid controversy than to step forward and attempt to do the right thing.
~ Bob Benson
Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
~ Bob Dylan
It ain't my cup of meat.
~ Bob Dylan
They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all.
~ Boris Pasternak
a desgraça de um gosto mediano é ainda pior do que a desgraça de não ter gosto nenhum
~ Boris Pasternak
To tell you the truth, Father, I don't think God has a favorite football team, or a favorite religion.
~ Brad Thor
it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.
~ Susanna Clarke
Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.
~ Susanna Clarke
I'm Ambivalent. In fact that's my new favorite word. Do you know what it means ? I don't care.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Is there anything else ye require, aside from yer freedom and a coach with four white horses to carry ye away from here?" "The horses don't have to be white," she returned. "I'm not particular.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Eva: You like 'em tall and skinny Gideon: Last I checked, the wife I can't resist was petite and voluptuous. Spectacularly so
~ Sylvia Day
I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.
~ Sylvia Plath
Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city? And you said... And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?
~ Sylvia Plath
Avocados are my favourite fruit.
~ Sylvia Plath
If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit. Black or gray, or brown, even. Blue just makes me laugh.
~ Sylvia Plath
Preferiría que algo funcionara mal en mi cuerpo a que funcionara mal en mi cabeza, pero la idea parecía tan complicada que no dije nada
~ Sylvia Plath
special preference to "an automobile manufacturer incorporated in Delaware on October 13, 1916." That would be General Motors, although the name of the firm does not appear.
~ T.R. Reid
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
~ T.S. Eliot
There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It
~ T.S. Eliot
The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.
~ Tahir Shah
Ishabal: If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles? Tris: Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.
~ Tamora Pierce
Thinta flew safely, and I realized how much I preferred being with Hergal and feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. Actually when I'm with Hergal I always realize how I prefer being with Thinta and not feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright.
~ Tanith Lee