If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
My preference would be to play as a right winger, but I can also play as a striker. — Oliver Burke Copy Share Image
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“But... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?” — Fritz Diantan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. — Vladimir Putin 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
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. — James Randi Copy Share Image
