If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the… — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in… — Luis Figo Copy Share Image
When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer. — Rakshit Shetty Copy Share Image
Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on… — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional… — George Will Copy Share Image
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed.… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference… — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Honestly I feel comfortable starting and relieving. I've done both a lot. I really don't have a preference except which one gets… — Tyler Thornburg Copy Share Image
For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars. — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
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