Quotes About Preference

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

welcome sign that shouted: "We love visitors in Sunshine, Texas! Stay for a while—we'll make you smile!" Underneath that horrible threat was the number of idiots who lived here: 403. I was already claustrophobic. I preferred big cities with their bad drivers, polluted skies, shitty attitudes, and endless cheap motel and diner options.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Americans have always wallowed in bad taste and show no signs of reversing this trend.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and for all whom one is going to like and dislike, to stick to the people one likes, and, to make up for the time one has wasted with the others, never to leave them again as long as one lives.

And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time.

Embora Swann nunca se tivesse considerado seriamente ameaçado pela amizade de Odette por esse ou aquele fiel, sentira uma profunda doçura ao ouvi-la admitir assim diante de todos, com aquele tranquilo despudor, seus encontros cotidianos de cada noite, a situação privilegiada que ele ocupava em sua casa e a preferência por ele que ali estava implícita.

There is more truth in a single tragedy of Racine than in all the dramatic works of Monsieur Victor Hugo," replied M. de Charlus. "People really are overwhelming," Saint-Loup murmured in my ear. "Preferring Racine to Victor, you may say what you like, it's epoch-making!

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.

They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like? Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

I'm a picture of abject fear. If I had my choice between flying to El Paso or getting a colonoscopy, I'd have to think about it.

Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.

It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.

It was the black jellybeans that did it.