Quotes About Preference

I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.

The French differentiate between loving and liking this way: You like because of; you love in spite of.

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

Si insistes en comprar mala comida, debes estar preparado para que no te apetezca comerla.

If you insist on buying poor food, you must be prepared to dislike it at the serving.

Dar, uite, eu, dintre toate na?iunile, aleg imagi-na?iunea.

Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.

Tea, tea! What is it with tea? I have passed urine samples that are stronger than this. Gimme a coffee, now!

Choose not what they love, but what you love.

Puzzled Peter ponders whilst prepping parsley and parsnips for people Peter poorly held preference.

the Founders were concerned that the will of the people could easily become the preferences of the mob.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

At least I'm not reading a book by Alexander dumass.

Él no quería hijos y Patricia no quería un marido: a veces es más fácil saber lo que no se quiere.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Pete was getting on the others' nerves. It wasn't that he did anything wrong: he was a nice guy and a good enough drummer. It was simply that his personality was different: he preferred to sit on his own rather than join in with the others' non-stop banter.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

Sometimes a person really must choose between two good things. Two good things, thought Flora. I would choose the thing that involved a cat.

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer

Sky blue," he replied proudly. "I thought of red at first and then I saw a red Moonbeam—exactly the same model—with two ghastly people in it. They had parked in a lay-by and they were hugging each other—on the main road, mark you! It was enough to put anyone off red cars for life. So I rang up the fellow at the garage and changed to sky blue.

Mr. James would have preferred a younger and more attractive secretary, but he merely sighed and said, "Oh well . . . Of course you know best, Mrs. B. She certainly seems very keen.

The other day I said to Waldron I'd give him a book to read—any book he liked—and he said he never read anything except the papers. He said he liked true stories, not made-up ones. Then I said, what about history? And he said, ' That's over and done with. All that matters to me is what happens between the time I was born and the time when I die.' What can you do with a man like that, David?

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.