Quotes About Preference

Deep down, most humans prefer living out their lives surrounded by comfortable certainties, guided by warm myths and metaphors, knowing that they'll understand their children, and their children will understand them.

People prefer not to believe in that sort of thing. There's a whole catalogue of nasty little emotions curdling in the human spirit, and anything the least bit out of the ordinary raises the possibility of retribution.

The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don't. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.

Right from the start, what I liked best about the analyst was that his office was a mess.

Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the road? Or are they merely expressions of personal preference, like having a taste for certain foods? Or are they somehow valid and binding, independent of our opinion, and if they are objective in this way, what is their foundation?

The aesthetic-usability effect describes a phenomenon in which people perceive more-aesthetic designs as easier to use than less-aesthetic designs—whether they are or not.

I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?

What's good coffee taste like?" "Coffee." "What's the best coffee taste like?" "Good coffee." "What's the difference between good coffee and the best coffee?" "Advertising.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

For she had eyes and chose me.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summerhouse in Christendom.

O, that is entertainment My bosom likes not, nor my brows!

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his fathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose. Every time I have to decide between you [Charles de Gaulle] and Roosevelt, I shall always choose Roosevelt.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Na realidade, prefiro a ciência à religião. Se me fizerem escolher entre Deus e o ar condicionado, fico com o ar.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.