Quotes about Preference

I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.

And the essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. That is the root we must sever (daily!)—desiring anything more than God.

Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.

And Isaac loved Esau - Isaac though he was not a stirring man himself, yet he loved to have his son active. Esau knew how to please him, and shewed a great respect for him, by treating him often with venison, which won upon him more than one would have thought. But Rebekah loved him whom God loved.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.