Preference Quotes

322 quotes by 288 authors

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is… — Willem Dafoe
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. — Marlene Dietrich
Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200… — Lupe Fiasco
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. — Laurell K. Hamilton
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the… — Tim Berners-Lee
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day… — Daniel Day-Lewis
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent… — Walter Lippmann
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted… — David Mamet
Gentlemen prefer bonds. — Andrew Mellon
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling… — John Stuart Mill
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. — Moliere
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning. — Alanis Morissette
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' — Dee Dee Myers
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural… — Henry Paulson
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so… — Petrarch
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference. — Miuccia Prada
I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. — Vladimir Putin
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country. — Mariano Rivera

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