Quotes About Preference

My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.

I'm starting to think you like prisons, " "And that you have the worst taste in men.

He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Patrocles does not strike us as a hero because of his accomplishments (he was rapidly killed) but because he preferred to die than see Achilles sulking into inaction. Clearly, the epic poets understood invisible histories. Also later thinkers and poets had more elaborate methods for dealing with randomness, as we will see with stoicism.

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

He doesn't usually mind people calling him Fat Tony, but he much prefers to be called just Tony.

I prefer to use stories and vignettes to illustrate our gullibility about stories and our preference for the dangerous compression of narratives.*

the behavior of the total is dictated by the preferences of a minority.

our preference for the anecdotal over the empirical.

Cuál es la probabilidad de morir en un accidente aéreo?», por ejemplo, las personas aumentan el grado de probabilidad. Sin embargo, Slovic y sus colegas descubrieron, en patrones del mundo de los seguros, que en las pólizas la gente se olvidaba de esos sucesos altamente improbables. Dichos investigadores llaman a este fenómeno «la preferencia por asegurarse contra pequeñas pérdidas probables», a expensas de las menos probables pero de mayor impacto.

I would like the option of having neither.

the choices and preferences are those of the majority.

They would prefer a defective forecast to nothing.

Look it. Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?

Hamburgers, to many of us, are vastly tastier than filet mignon because of the higher fat content, but people have been convinced that the latter is better because it is more expensive to produce.

There is a vast difference between the things I can do, and the things I choose to do.

He preferred his martinis shaken, not stirred

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you're number one and there isn't even a number two.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.