Preference Quotes

322 quotes by 288 authors

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all… — Thomas Paine
I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs.… — Nelson DeMille
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
So, whatâ€™s your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more… — Carl Jung
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetitesâ€¦in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
We can all begin freelyâ€”a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in… — Jane Austen
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless… — Bell Hooks
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to… — Mark Levin
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to… — Eric Ludy
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. — P. C. Cast
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them… — Winston Churchill
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help… — John Dewey
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything… — John Stuart Mill
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. Youâ€™ve been caught, my friend. You… — Lisa Kleypas
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of… — John Calvin

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