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Quotes About Preference

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
~ E.E. Cummings
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
~ E.L. Doctorow
And what difference does it make, anyway, what you like and what you don't like? You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy.
~ Edith Wharton
But we're so different, you know: she likes being good, and I like being happy. And
~ Edith Wharton
E ora mea favorit?... nu e ?i a dumitale?
~ Edith Wharton
Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?
~ Edith Wharton
Criminal means once tolerated are soon preferred.
~ Edmund Burke
They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. On the present scheme it is impossible to divine what advantage they derive from the aristocratic preference upon which the unequal representation of the masses is founded.
~ Edmund Burke
The modest, the sober, and the learned, are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert, in the list of invitations, the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind
~ Edward Gibbon
my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
~ Edward Gorey
A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.
~ Edward Gorey
Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc
~ Edward Rutherfurd
She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~ Albert Einstein
Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Fra le mille maniere di fare un'azione, scegliamo sempre istintivamente la peggiore.
~ Alberto Moravia
Confident in the power of truth, He chose the base things of the world in preference to things held in esteem, assured that they would conquer at the last.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air,Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair.
~ Alexander Pope
I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
~ Alexandra Paul
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I guess that, as a girl from Washington state, I am attracted to a little scruff and men who are able to roll out of bed, throw on a baseball cap, and call it a day.
~ Mikaela Hoover
I'm not interested in babies at all. Babies to me are like wasps: pointless, irritating and even one can ruin a picnic. They're just not my bag at all.
~ Ellie Taylor