Preference Quotes

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

I'm an American before any party preference.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it's personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

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.

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

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

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

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

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

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

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

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

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