Quotes about Preference

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

I prefer my men slightly overweight. Having said that, my ultimate dream man is Jimmy Nail and he's skinny.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Faced with an infinite number of choices, many people pick the market leader.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.