Quotes About Preference

Cleanliness is itself a virtue. Next to godliness? If she were quite frank with herself, she would probably change the order and say godliness is next to cleanliness. Certainly she would prefer as a visitor a clean sinner to a dirty saint.

The U.S. palate now understands spicy.

Staking is a terrible way to go. I'd much rather be decapitated. It still makes an awful mess but it's a lot more dignified than your limbs twittering all over the place. - Jo March

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

As soon as sin was their choice, the cover of darkness was their preference.

I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody.

I like my coffee strong, not lethal!

É preferível ficar na entressombra fecunda, que é só onde podem nascer as assombrações.

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

Well? What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

We were silent a moment. 'So, which of the suitors would you have picked?' I shoved him, and he laughed

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

I'm beginning to learn a few of the things I dont want," said Herf quietly. "At least I'm beginning to have the nerve to admit to myself how much I dislike all the things I dont want.

His whole life long, even in those few moments when he had experienced some inkling of satisfaction, contentment, and perhaps even happiness, he had preferred exhaling to inhaling—just as he had begun life not with a hopeful gasp for air but with a bloodcurdling scream.

It then occurred to me that after God made all this, he pronounced it good, for heaven's sake. It's his way of letting us know he rather prefers adventure, danger, risk, the element of surprise. This whole creation is unapologetically wild. God loves it that way.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald? Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

Mary always preferred to ride on horseback rather than be carried in a litter or a coach

Mary forbade this. She preferred to leave things the way they were than get involved in anything disreputable.

You may think it's enough to just read Val Kilmer's wine blog and drink whatever he recommends. And for the most part, you would be right. But sometimes Val Kilmer gets confused and drinks Thousand Island salad dressing, and so it's important to develop your own palate as well.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

Jack wouldn't have wanted to be buried there. If you were lying in that graveyard, facing south, you would be looking at an ugly seventeen-story high-rise for the rest of your death.