Preference quotes

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al Alvarez

#Nervous #Poet #Preference

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Library #Exclusion #Preference

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

#Mind #Belief #Preference

Gentlemen prefer bonds.
-- Andrew Mellon

#Ties #Gentleman #Preference

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.
-- Bill Shorten

#Unions #Pay #Preference

But our preferences do not determine what's true.
-- Carl Sagan

#Preference #Determine

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.
-- Charles Inglis

#Government #Preference #Form

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
-- Christine Baranski

#Preference #Mediums

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.
-- Danielle LaPorte

#Real #Preference

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
-- David Hume

#Philosophy #Easy #Preference

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
-- Ed McBain

#Preference #Should #Ashamed

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Machines #Preference

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
-- Gamaliel Bailey

#Doubt #Majority #Preference

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Teaching #Bars #Preference

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.
-- Havoc Pennington

#Problem #Preference #Performances

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
-- Henry James

#Care #Reason #Preference

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
-- Heraclitus

#Men #Glory #Preference

They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
-- James G. March

#People #Preference #Made

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
-- James Randi

#Atheism #Littles #Preference

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Taste #Culinary #Preference

People should always have something which they prefer to life.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume

#People #Preference #Should

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
-- John B. S. Haldane

#Special #Preference #Creator

Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.
-- John de Ruiter

#Real #Preference #Plans

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
-- Ken Keyes Jr.

#Addiction #Consciousness #Preference

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
-- Lance Loud

#Men #Preference #Bother

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
-- Lance Loud

#Lust #Reason #Preference

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Prejudice #Victim #Preference

I'm an American before any party preference.
-- Lynn Anderson

#Party #Preference

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Our World #Infinite #Preference

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
-- Mariano Rivera

#Country #Missing #Preference

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.
-- Mark Salling

#Preference

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.
-- Matt LeBlanc

#Gentleman #Preference #True Gentleman

Good men prefer to be accountable.
-- Michael Edwardes

#Men #Good Man #Preference

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Kind #Preference #Prada

I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
-- Nicki Minaj

#Writing #Preference

Desperate is not a sexual preference.
-- R. K. Milholland

#Sex #Desperate #Preference

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
-- Sengcan

#Way #Preference #Difficult

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Done #Preference #Remembered

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?
-- Toby Keith

#Care #Who Cares #Preference

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
-- Tony Shalhoub

#Diversity #Preference #Materials

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
-- Vince Vaughn

#Nostalgia #Film #Preference

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
-- Virginia E. Johnson

#Preference

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
-- Willem Dafoe

#Theatre #Film #Preference

Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.
-- Hans H Wellisch

#Eye #Logical #Preference

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.
-- Michael Hersch

#Thinking #Understanding #Preference

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
-- David Greenberg

#Ideas #Preference #Rooted

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
-- Ronnie Dunn

#Preference #Venues #Seats

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".
-- Rose Tremain

#Criticism #Firsts #Preference

When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that, you know, you'd essentially like to be advertised to by this company.
-- Tim Wu

#Mean #May #Preference