Quotes About Preference

Munira relished twilight as a prelude to that awesome shadow. He looked forward to the unwilled immersion into people, huts, without consciously choosing the links. To choose involved effort, decision, preference of one possibility, and this could be painful. He had chosen not to choose . . .

Because of preferential attachment, most social networks are profoundly inegalitarian.

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Maybe she really likes guys who like hamburgers.

Storm also recalls that Syd adored the Beatles, at a time when most of his friends preferred the Stones.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

I tell you straight that I would not eat such nastiness, even had I made it myself. Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips. Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble. But have some mutton, friend Chichikov. It is shoulder of mutton, and very different stuff from the mutton which they cook in noble kitchens — mutton which has been kicking about the market-place four days or more.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Better the devil that you know than the one that you don't.

You can not know any better and still know you don't like something" -Ruby

When it comes to curbing speech, experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.

Sharks are more "natural" than life rafts-at least according to vulgar understanding-but, if forced to dive off a sinking ship and swim for my life, I'd rather meet a life raft than a shark! I daresay that radical environmentalists would share this view if the choice were actually forced upon them.2

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.

When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma