Preference Quotes - Page 11

• The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Patriotic, School

  77 Copy quote

• With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

  Jane Smiley

  Grief, Views, Personality

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Consciousness, Distinction

  51 Copy quote

• Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Gourmet, Consciousness

  15 Copy quote

• We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

  Julia Cameron

  Happiness, Wisdom, Confused

  27 Copy quote

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Remembered

  11 Copy quote

• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Seneca the Elder

  Greatness, Mind, Excess

  10 Copy quote

• Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

  Susan Cain

  Environment, Painful, Shyness

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

  Jo Brand

  Fun, Swimming, Sea

  4 Copy quote

• My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

  Henry Paulson

  Responsibility, Risk, Roles

  17 Copy quote

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

  Miuccia Prada

  Kind, Prada

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

  John Sununu

  Winning, Technology, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  Vince Vaughn

  Nostalgia, Film, Knows

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Paradise, Hell

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

  16 Copy quote

• Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Party, Connections, Doe

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?

  Francesca Lia Block

  4 Copy quote

• Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

  Dee Dee Myers

  Class, Priorities, Example

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gentlemen prefer bonds.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ties, Gentleman

  18 Copy quote

• The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

  David Mamet

  Black And White, Government, Assessment

  13 Copy quote

• I want to be very clear - whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the Administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  People, Safety, Custody

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Men, Literature

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  President, Records, Judgment

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Theatre, Film, Sustaining

  10 Copy quote

• A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Women, Home, Unmade Beds

  48 Copy quote