Quotes and Sayings About Preference

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