Quotes about Preference
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
— Winston Churchill
Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.
— St. Cyprian
Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
Only cactuses had perennial appeal. And cactuses were of no interest to her.
— Milan Kundera
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
— DH Lawrence
Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
— Marquis de Sade
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
God does not 'love' us without liking us.
— Dallas Willard
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
— William Hazlitt