Preference Quotes

322 quotes by 288 authors

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not… — Shelby Steele
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to… — Leo Tolstoy
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:… — George Washington
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right… — William Hazlitt
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by… — Alexander Hamilton
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy… — Elmer Kelton
Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems. — Havoc Pennington
I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate. — Mark Salling
I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my… — Nicki Minaj
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. — Christine Baranski
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond
Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this… — Ward Connerly
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first… — Tony Horwitz
This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion… — Dalton Trumbo
I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best… — Dalton Trumbo
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others. — Tris Speaker
But I am pro-life and will intend, if Iâ€™m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices… — Mitt Romney
Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared. — David Mamet

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