Quotes About Predilection

If I had a choice, I'd say I'm right-handed.

There is every reason to believe that the Gospel of John was spread and well known in Babylonia, if not separately then in the version of Tatian's Diatessaron with its predilection for John.

In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all.

All prices of all things—at least, useless beautiful things like rare books—are inherently absurd, rooted in the human imagination and in the all-too-human predilection to desperately want what others value highly, and to scorn what others fail to value.

The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of focusing on how the event at hand came to be, the statistical view relates it to what could have happened instead. Nothing in particular caused it to be what it is—chance selected it from among its alternatives. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.

I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

A person of her class. A person whose habits and manners stamped out the development of desire and predilection.

You prefer this place, you really do, don't you?

The manners and customs of bugs are peculiar; they wait till the candle is out, and then, as soon as it is dark, sally forth—not at random; they make straight for the neck, the place of their predilection; sometimes they select the wrists; a few rare ones prefer the ankles. It is not exactly known for what reason they inject into the sleeper's skin an exquisitely irritating oily substance, the virulence of which is intensified by the slightest rubbing...

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

La enfermera no puso objeciones y lo cierto es que se tranquilizó no poco al advertir lo mucho que había cambiado Lewis ahora que esa fresca y descarada ya no estaba en casa, pues parecía predispuesta, con la mayor naturalidad, a culpar principalmente de la situación al miembro de su mismo sexo.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist.

He was a rock star and an absolute major yummy, but he had a certain predilection." "That being?" "He liked underage girls." "He was a pedophile?" "No, I don't believe so. His targets were fully developed. But they were young. Sixteen, seventeen." Alista

Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

The man of method may channel all his spiritual currents towards productive ends, be relentless in his suppression of predilection and propensity, but when accident upsets the flow of his life, he finds himself drowning in a sea of tedium, hatred, and rage.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

This is the worst characteristic of the Germans. Well, actually a predilection for starting land wars in Europe is their worst characteristic, but this is right up there with it.