Preference Quotes

322 quotes by 288 authors

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans. — John de Ruiter
God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family… — David Shibley
When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences… — Michelle Obama
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way… — Mark Nepo
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or… — Sengcan
We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the greatest joy when… — Thom S. Rainer
A true gentleman doesnâ€™t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesnâ€™t have any preferences whatsoever. — Matt LeBlanc
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled. — Anthony de Jasay
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from… — Anthony de Jasay
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill… — Louise Wilder
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also… — Stephen Jay Gould
The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how… — Tom Vanderbilt
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and… — Henci Goer
Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the… — Michael Crichton
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more… — Victor Davis Hanson
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing… — Peter Thiel
The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic… — Don Edward Beck
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring… — Michael Sandel

Who Wrote These Preference Quotes

288 authors contributed a total of 322 Preference Quotes, led by these top contributors: