Quotes About Preference

This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

She certainly didn't have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly took those, and then resented her for being able to produce them. Most human beings, she concluded long ago, love to worship from afar people with extraordinary ability, but prefer to have their friends be genial incompetents. And, of course, most of them get their preference.

Orson Scott Card

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it.

y en la democracia óptica de tales paisajes toda preferencia se vuelve caprichosa y hombre y roca terminan por asumir parentescos insospechados.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo. Great. Okay. How about this one. A farmer finds two boll weevils in his cotton patch. You told me. I never. He chose the lesser of two weevils.

No, the story much have a happy ending. It wouldn't be right otherwise! She had never liked sad stories.

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.

though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people.

money and Republicans and sausage did not strike me as a particularly tempting combination.

Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries;

But Paul liked the girls best. The men seemed common and rather dull. He liked them all, but they were uninteresting.

Isn't it beautiful? she pleaded. But he only scowled. He would rather have had it ugly just then.

I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

what would have been a dining room. He wanted around him only things

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out