Preference Quotes - Page 19

• What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

  Norbert Wiener

  Powerful, School, Grieving

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Novel, Sentiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.

  Lionel Trilling

  Horse, Wrath, Intellectual

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

  6 Copy quote

• Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Our World, Infinite, Function

  "The Ketchup Conundrum" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. September 6, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Literature, Good Times

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Writing, Names

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule . . . It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

  Ward Connerly

  America, Race, Government

  6 Copy quote

• I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

  ASAP Rocky

  Skin Color, Immature, Skins

  "Jay-Z, Macklemore, ASAP Rocky lead gay-rights shift in hip-hop" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 27, 2013.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

  Christian Bale

  Character

  4 Copy quote

• I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

  Mariano Rivera

  Country, Missing, Panama

  6 Copy quote

• Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Race, Special

  "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Machines, Programmers, Expensive

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.22, Addison-Wesley Professional

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

  Wendell Berry

  Ideas, Kind, Good Work

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nikki Sixx

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  12 Copy quote

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

  Toby Keith

  Who Cares, Care

  "Toby Keith Weighs In On Gay Marriage, Dadt" by HuffingtonPost.com, October 1, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what is conspicuous or brilliant. Such men forget that Christian virtues, which are God's inspiration, should be viewed from the side of grace, not that of nature. The dignity or difficulty of a good action certainly affects what is technically called its accidental worth, but all essential worth must come from love alone.

  Jean-Pierre Camus

  People, Quality, Essentials

  "The Spirit of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

  John Michael Higgins

  Character, Gay, Play

  4 Copy quote

• Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de  sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve  rifie  , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Despair, Amusement, Boring

  1887 Mon coeur mis a' nu, pt.18.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

  7 Copy quote

• Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

  Steven Weinberg

  Evolution, Excitement, Natural

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.175, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

  Lucinda Roy

  Mother, People, Tree

  6 Copy quote

• People should always have something which they prefer to life.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Life, People, Should

  7 Copy quote

• The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.

  John Tooby

  Daughter, Husband, War

  7 Copy quote

• As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Jobs, Black

  59 Copy quote