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Quotes About Preference

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.
~ Kay Ryan
I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?
~ Kelley Armstrong
He rolled his eyes. First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either. I sputtered a laugh. I think that's Swiss.
~ Kelley Armstrong
su educación le había enseñado que actuar era preferible a quejarse.
~ Ken Follett
Prefieren un régimen de inactividad y una
~ Ken Follett
he was still in love four months later. But she preferred his brother. Why? It had nothing to do with looks. The
~ Ken Follett
Carlus hated furniture to be moved, for then he would stumble over it;
~ Ken Follett
I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.
~ Steve Young
I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.
~ Brad Feld
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
~ Margaret Mead
On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.
~ Kinky Friedman
When people are given three prices (think of those for small, medium, and large coffee), and they have no strong preference, they tend to pick the "middle" price. Morgan
~ William Poundstone
We choose between descriptions of options, rather than between the options themselves.
~ William Poundstone
It was like pulling the strings on a marionette. Huber and Puto found they could make the students want one beer or the other, just by adding a third choice that few or no one wanted.
~ William Poundstone
Old fashions please me best.
~ William Shakespeare
I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
~ William Shakespeare
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,Than such a Roman.
~ William Shakespeare
I love long life better than figs.
~ William Shakespeare
we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.
~ William Wordsworth
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
~ Winifred Gallagher
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
~ Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
~ Winston Churchill
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
~ Winston S. Churchill
When, for instance, we say that a literary work is good or bad, we are making a value judgment (...) Objective evidence for subjective preferences does not makes the value judgment itself objective, but merely objectifies the preference.
~ Wolfgang Iser