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Quotes About Preference

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
~ John Steinbeck
There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not.
~ John Steinbeck
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
~ John Steinbeck
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
~ John Stuart Mill
Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.
~ John Zakour
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
~ Aaron Spelling
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
~ Susan Olsen
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
~ Unknown
Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.
~ John Krasinski
I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
~ Rachel Nichols
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle Earth.
~ George R.R. Martin
I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.
~ Ben Feldman
I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious?
~ Unknown
My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.
~ James Boswell
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
~ Clifford Geertz
I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
~ Garry Marshall
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
~ Patti Smith
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.
~ James Whistler
Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.
~ Susan Cain
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
The person capable of distinguishing between his desires and needs and realizes what should be preferred in the ever changing situations of life, never faces failures and disappointments.
~ Unknown
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
~ Unknown
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche