Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 6380 authors
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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
— Douglas Adams
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be…
— Eric Carr
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I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them…
— Leon Redbone
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Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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There's a good reason catas say me-ow rather than we-ow or you-ow.
— David Fisher
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People would rather be wrong than be different.
— Henry Jacobsen
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No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
— Barnaby Keeney
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Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as…
— Luci Shaw
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement…
— Gilbert Burnet
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in…
— Thomas Sprat
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Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a…
— Lyman Spitzer
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Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in…
— Charles Thom
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Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata [Mary]. Let her prepare us, let her receive Him [Jesus] in Holy Communion. This is the manner most…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.
— Henry de Montherlant
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Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those…
— Silouan the Athonite
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If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of…
— Henry Suso
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and…
— Catherine of Genoa
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I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.
— August Macke
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by…
— Bridget Riley
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