Preference Quotations | Page 3

All things being equal, I have a slight preference for the amount of consternation I am causing.

The company is not really interested in selling that land to the state, or anybody else. Our preference has always been, we would look favorably upon some sort of a trade for land elsewhere that might be more consistent with our business.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

I'm an American before any party 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 usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.