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Quotes About Preference

Attractive things certainly should be preferred over ugly ones, but why would they work better? Yet in the early 1990s, two Japanese researchers, Masaaki Kurosu and Kaori Kashimura, claimed just that.
~ Donald A. Norman
I'm a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that experience: good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
~ Donald Trump
Though he had repeatedly asked her not to do this, she insisted on choosing a subject at the beginning of any investigation he worked on, and she was generally wrong, for she always opted for the most obvious choice.
~ Donna Leon
Give me golf clubs, fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air.
~ Jack Benny
The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer.
~ Jack Finney
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.
~ Jack Goldstein
sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather
~ Jack Goldstein
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults
~ Jack Goldstein
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes!
~ Jack Goldstein
If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.
~ Jack Goldstein
If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults
~ Jack Goldstein
This line of thinking, ascribing agency and individuality to women, an individuality which may lead to different outcomes than men's, violates the foundational myth of the Blue Church: all people everywhere are exactly the same, including their preferences and life choices.
~ Unknown
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
~ Jack Vance
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~ Jackie Mason
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~ Jackie Mason
I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.
~ Jacob M. Appel
the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me
~ Jacqueline Wilson
j'aime mieux tes lèvres que mes livres
~ Jacques Prévert
I don't photograph anything I don't like. I do the flowers, I don't do the weeds.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
~ Unknown
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
~ Lydia Davis
Mais tarde descobri que não gosta nem de poesia nem de música. Ainda assim, liguei o toca-discos e dei-lhe os patrícios, Bethânia, Caetano. E se não dei televisão é porque acho aquilo o fim. Embora esteja pensando numa mas só para ver os filmes antigos. E os longas-metragens de vampiros e monstros.
~ Unknown
In the choice of a wife, sundry men are of sundry minds. One looketh high as one that feareth no chips, saying that the oil that swimmeth on the top is the wholesomest. Another poreth in the ground, as dreading all dangers that happen in great stocks, alleging that the honey that lieth in the bottom is the sweetest.
~ Unknown