Quotes About Preference

But no; he did not like cabbages

Did he like elms? Did he know Joyce's poem about the two washerwomen? He did, indeed. Did he like it? He did. In fact he was beginning to like very much arbors and ardors and Adas

To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would--invariably, with icy precision--plump for the former.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Sorry, I happen to be into women, so Thanatos doesn't do it for me. But it's probably fair to say that if I were gay, I'd do him.

The Qumran texts are also of interest in reflecting a preference for the expressions "Holy Spirit" and "Spirit of Holiness

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur.

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

He preferred her barefoot, he said. She had such lovely feet. Roza didn't agree. What was lovely about feet that could not take you anywhere? What was lovely about feet that could not run?

If you don't like it, don't eat it! And if you like it, really savour it

What do I like about my schedule? What would I like to spend more time doing? What would I like to spend less time doing? How can I make that happen?

No," I shout, because my mother doesn't know what I like anymore. "I don't eat things that bleed. Just cheese with lettuce or tomato and mayo. No dead fish or animals, please." "You see what I have to put up with?" my mother says.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

If you had the choice, would you pick Jeb over me?" "In a heartbeat," I said. "Ouch," he said.

Not everybody likes bunnies and trees, but everybody likes executive housing complexes.

SnowAngel: uh huh, whatevs. i LIKE american cheese. zoegirl: so do i SnowAngel: and not just cheese made in america, but actual orange squares of american cheese. it's the only kind for grilled cheese sandwiches.

i'm not picking mcdonald's, and i'm not picking chinese. i'm sorry, but i'm picking some place really good, cuz if they're gonna give us bad news, they're gonna have to do it over a super nice meal.

I don't really like knees.

I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

If it is true that a man marries, for preference, his opposite (the "law of life"), that is because we have an instinctive horror of being tied to someone who displays the same defects and idiosyncrasies as ourselves. The reason is obviously that defects and idiosyncrasies, discovered in someone near to us, rob us of the illusion-which we formerly fostered-that in ourselves they would be eccentricities, excusable because of their originality.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.