Preference Quotes

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.

I'm an American before any party preference.

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

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

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.

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

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

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

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

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?

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.