Quotes about Preference
Don't you want to be free of all that? [33] 'But how can I do it?' You've often heard how — you need to suspend desire completely, and train aversion only on things within your power. You should dissociate yourself from everything outside yourself — the body, possessions, reputation, books, applause, as well as office or lack of office. Because a preference for any of them immediately makes you a slave, a subordinate, and prone to disappointment.
— Epictetus
Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.
— Shaun Alexander
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
— Philip Yancey
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
— Lee Strobel
What Republican voters have shown us is that when they have the choice between the real thing and the fake one, they go with the real one every time.
— Andrew Gillum
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
— Anne Lamott
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
— Joseph Brodsky
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.
— Ravi Zacharias
Churches closing at a rate of six thousand per year in North America are not doing so because of worship style or form of government or methodology. They are failing because regardless of your preference on those points, it's pointless to deny the true cause behind debates and divisions—a failure to love.
— James MacDonald
Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.
— James Montgomery Boice
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson