Quotes About Preference

Justice favors the favored sons.

Dancing?, ventured Portia. I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa? You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest, dancing and suffering can be partners in step.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

One of life's great secrets: women don't look for handsome men, they look for men with beautiful women.

You notice the General insists upon getting his planes ahead of any other customers. I take it that something is going to happen this spring.

Which is better, to vote for what you want and can't get, or to vote for what you don't want and get it?

Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan éclaire, mais l'aube éclaire encore mieux. Combeferre préférait peut-être la blancheur du beau au flamboiement du sublime.

Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.

one good piece, ladies, and choose it well;

you can bet who your dad will like best.

This special, one-of-a-kind key: the unique mix of books and stories that he would choose to read. Different from everyone else on the planet. His blanks to fill in. His Once Upon a Time.

I won't eat anything green.

I won't eat anything green.

Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores

I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

but never really made an effort to talk to her. Never really felt the need. She wasn't my type, if I even had a type.

When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

All I refuse and thee I choose.

Perhaps she'll find that real darkness is more to her taste than feeble twilight.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.