Quotes About Preference

I dont like morning people...or mornings...or people.

De sorte que é um erro falar em má escolha de amor, pois, desde que há escolha, só pode ser má.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

The sort of thing people call little masterpieces, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact what I loathe most in the world. The

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them;

But except Cinq-Mars I have never been able to read a thing by M. de Vigny. I get so bored that the book falls from my hands.

the fine binding of his volume of Balzac I asked him which was his favourite novel in the Comédie Humaine, he replied, his thoughts irresistibly attracted to the same topic: "Either one thing or the other, a tiny miniature like the Curé de Tours and the Femme abandonnée, or one of the great frescoes like the series of Illusions perdues. What! You've never read Illusions perdues?

An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.

Give us either bright sun or pouring rain—the in-between stuff depresses me.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. —Robert Frost

As politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

A man should choose a wife with a careful eye to his own personal gratification, in the same way that he chooses horses or wine--perfection or nothing. And the woman? The woman has really no right of choice, she must mate wherever she has the chance of being properly maintained. A man is always a man--a woman is only a man's appendage, and without beauty she cannot put forth any just claim to his admiration or support.

C — Choose. What's my choice?

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

My favorite animal is steak.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?