Quotes and Sayings About Preference
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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 -
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
-- Alberto Manguel -
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
But our preferences do not determine what's true.
-- Carl Sagan -
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 -
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
-- Christine Baranski -
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 -
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
-- David Hume -
I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
-- Ed McBain -
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
-- Eric S. Raymond -
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 -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.
-- Havoc Pennington -
I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
-- Henry James -
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 -
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 -
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
-- James Randi -
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
People should always have something which they prefer to life.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume -
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
-- John B. S. Haldane -
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 -
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
-- Lance Loud -
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 -
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
-- Lavrenti Lopes -
I'm an American before any party preference.
-- Lynn Anderson -
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
-- Mariano Rivera