Quotes About Preference

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.