Quotes about Preference

When people ask me that absurd question Do you like children? I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority.

But I said 'no' flat to that. 'They may be all right—I'm not saying they're not—but no London street Arabs for me,' I said. 'Give me a native born at least. There'll be a risk, no matter who we get. But I'll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.

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

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

Love is a commandment, Father Hugo said. It is a choice, a preference. If we love God with our whole hearts, how much heart have we left? If we love with our whole mind and soul and strength, how much mind and soul and strength have we left? We must live this life now. Death changes nothing. If we do not learn to enjoy God now we never will. If we do not learn to praise Him and thank Him and rejoice in Him now, we never will.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

We all have personal favorites, whether we choose a god or a friend.

If you don't like nice people, try the ones who aren't nice, and see how you like that!