Quotes About Preference

Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like

Friends were surprised that a sensuous and handsome man such as Einstein, who could have almost any woman fall for him, would find himself with a short and plain Serbian who had a limp and exuded an air of melancholy. "I would never be brave enough to marry a woman unless she were absolutely healthy," a fellow student said to him. Einstein replied, "But she has such a lovely voice.

I HAVE already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading, had not only rendered our hero unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted him in some degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged. He

Replace the sentence "It isn't fair" with "It's unfortunate," or "I'd prefer..." Thus, instead of insisting that the world be other than it is, you begin to accept reality—but not necessarily to approve of it.

Tenha em mente que: (1)alguém sempre pode escolher outra pessoa sem que isso se reflita em você; (2)quer você seja ou não escolhido por alguém importante, não é com isso que você deve medir seu valor. (...)Se essa pessoa preferir outro a você, tal escolha refletirá o outro e não você.

Either people like running or they don't. Either people get it or they don't. And if they don't, they just think people who like it are crazy. Which is okay. That makes us even.

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

Not that I'd ever want to own a 1960 sienna-rose Cadillac, but Hudson loves it, and I've got to admit—it glistens.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?

In a short time he came to like the rum, to prefer it, to demand it. The cheaper and rawer it was, the better he liked it. He reflected on this quirk of human nature and told June Mack, the barmaid, that it was one of God's most merciful blessings that people grew to love the things that necessity compelled them to eat and drink.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on drinking it, I've no doubt that the empire won't last much longer. No, a civilized person drinks coffee.

You are what you love, not what loves you.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer.

Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.

She reached for the Dr. Pepper and put it in with the Pepsi.

Self-interest is the only constant in life, and murder is always preferred to impotence. —Childermass