Quotes about Preference

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.

I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

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

Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.