Quotes About Preference

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite." "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.

In practice the word democracy is seldom used rationally. It has become for most politicians a term of endearment for the institutions they prefer or of praise for any measures that they desire.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we really like books that make us hate ourselves.

Vandenhoff disliked standing with or even near tall men.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

Mrs. Breedlove looked about her, and then realizing for the first time the effect she'd created among her guests, she tossed her head and said in a surprised voice, "I don't see why the idea shocks you so. A thing so commonplace as that! Actually, homosexuality is triter than incest! Doctor Kettlebaum considered it was all a matter of personal preference.