Top 477 Preference Quotes & Sayings

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Natural hair is just my personal preference.

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

Sexual preference has nothing to do with civil rights.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

I always give preference to the script and when it's good, I am game for anything.

Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that's just superficial.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

I have always said being part of the team and winning a medal for my country was my first preference.

We stay true to our values, and that's very people-centric, and taking care of our drivers, and drivers taking care of our passengers, and what we're seeing now is a driver preference and a passenger preference for Lyft.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

I'm an American before any party preference.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

So, what’s your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian)

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

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.

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Desperate is not a sexual preference.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

I do anchoring, but acting and dance is my first preference.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.

Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

My first preference is Bollywood and will always be.

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.