Quotes of Preference - somelinesforyou

“ She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,For women shed and use them at their liking;But there is something when man's eye appearsWet, still more disagreeable and striking. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. ”

- Wilferd A. Peterson

“ Time, so complain'd of,Who to no one manShows partiality,Brings round to all menSome undimm'd hours. ”

- Matthew

“ At election time, we see politicians posturing as if they were in the center, because the center really determines the outcome of American elections,... Washington Unwrapped. ”

- Richard Darman

“ Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity — it's self-liking. Your face is always on display. ”

- Estee Lauder

“ To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ”

- John Negroponte

“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections. Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling. Or just after. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ 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. ”

- Timothy Pawlenty

“ The secret of happiness is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally… ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping. ”

- Cindy Crawford

“ Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ”

- Dorothy Thompson

“ Sympathy is as lightning; it is quick as thought; it waits not to make its selections; it is irrespective of considerations, and of partialities, and of tastes, and of cold prudence. ”

- Isaac Taylor

“ The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? ”

- Louis Auchincloss

“ If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. ”

- Kenneth Burke

“ Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake. ”

- Robert Moses

“ Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. ”

- Clark Moustakas

“ The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. ”

- Unknown

“ It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ Obviously we are trying to avoid even the perception of partisanship,... Face the Nation. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. ”

- Confucius

“ A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it. ”

- Tom Bradley
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