Quotes about Preference
So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
— Genesis 24:57
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
— Genesis 25:28
But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
— Judges 14:3
“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
— Judges 15:2
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
— Job 7:15
So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
— Daniel 1:16
And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
— Luke 5:39
I have many things to write to you, but I would prefer not to do so with pen and ink.
— 3 John 1:13
Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the road? Or are they merely expressions of personal preference, like having a taste for certain foods? Or are they somehow valid and binding, independent of our opinion, and if they are objective in this way, what is their foundation?
— William Lane Craig
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
— Aristotle
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
— Peter Drucker