Preference Quotes · Page 8

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

— Anonymous

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

— David Hume

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful…

— George W. S. Trow

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

— Matt LeBlanc

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

— Katherine Harris

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary…

— David Samuels

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand…

— Lucinda Roy

I love to collaborate! That's totally my preference. And I feel like everything I do ends up being that way.

— Josh Pais

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…

— Robin Williams

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each…

— Henri Barbusse

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are…

— Ron Perlman

The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and…

— Thomas Jefferson

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…

— Steven Weinberg

When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're…

— Tim Wu

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride…

— Charles Dickens

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may…

— John Locke

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the…

— Barbara Sher

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected…

— Ernest K. Gann

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of…

— Therese of Lisieux

“ Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell…

— Joseph Lewis

Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country…

— Steven Moffat

People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility…

— Anthony de Jasay

It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions…

— Revilo P. Oliver

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

— Epictetus

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by…

— Omar N. Bradley

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses…

— Sidney Abbott

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

— Michael Chabon

So, what’s your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular…

— John Paul Stevens

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

— Mitch Kapor

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music,…

— Ken Keyes Jr

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

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

— Lance Loud

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to…

— Ashley Tisdale

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

— Henry David Thoreau

She is not being preferenced - she's not on our preference card because Pauline Hanson's view of Australia is basically a very…

— George Brandis

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had…

— John William Draper

At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down…

— Chris Froome

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she…

— Daniel Radcliffe