With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.
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'm an American before any party preference.
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.
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.
Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
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.
But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.
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.
I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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.
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.