Preferences Quotes

109 quotes by 104 authors

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. — Christian Bale
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to… — Edward Abbey
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment. — Monty Don
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr.
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their… — Walter E. Williams
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as… — John Tooby
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
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
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
Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems. — Havoc Pennington
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
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead
An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state… — Bruce Barton
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make… — Sengcan
Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might… — Barbara Sher
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and… — Julia Serano

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