Quotes About Preference

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

I'd read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga,' I say. 'Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

New York City is a place where everyone lived on top of each other, and that was exactly how Sabrina liked it. Living out in the middle of nowhere was dangerous and suspicious.

How many things there are that I do not want. —SOCRATES, CIRCA 425 B.C.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

I've never liked eating sweets, so waving a box of chocolates in front of me won't get my attention. For some people, chocolate is a severe temptation. But put me in a well-stocked bookstore and I'll have to restrain myself from buying all those wonderful reference books!

Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as "heroes", though given a choice most of them would no doubt have preferred to be somewhere else when the blow was struck.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

the sweeter the industry made its food, the sweeter kids liked their food to be.

Well, that's what the consumer wants, and we're not putting a gun to their head to eat it. That's what they want. If we give them less, they'll buy less, and the competitor will get our market. So you're sort of trapped.

This is not some big corporate plot to fatten up kids. This is what kids want. There are very few kids out there who will eat rice cakes and tofu.

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Who uses crunchy peanut butter?" he asked the room. "You might as well eat squirrel shit.

Given a choice between discussing the symbolism of a pig head on a stick and discussing my feelings, I'll take the pig head every time.

So what kind of minister do your folks want?" I asked. "Who cares? They're olds, too. They want someone who will like them more than Tom Fox does. But I think we need someone younger and not some old-school lady minister going on and on with the Mary Oliver and the Annie Dillard." I liked both writers and said so.

sexual sadists prefer anal sex, since it causes pain to the victim as well as being humiliating. Wilken preferred anal sex with all his victims. The pain they showed when he penetrated them anally heated his sexual arousal and caused him to commence strangling them.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.