Quotes Tagged "preference"

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side] A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.