Preference Quotes
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.
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.
I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without 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.
Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.
When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
