The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not my place to give you hell over your preference. Tits are awesome, but whatever.” — Kele Moon Copy Share Image
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“My two favorited pasttimes are sex and golf, in that order, although, as I grow older I find myself assessing their order… — Howard Giordano Copy Share Image
“The JP preference does show itself in simple and accessible reactions. It serves admirably as the fourth dichotomy if one detail is… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens… You will find that I have marked out a great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important… — Pat McGauley Copy Share Image
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what… — Jean-Pierre Camus Copy Share Image
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image