Rather Quotes

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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core… — George Eliot
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in… — Belle Boyd
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of… — Bertrand Russell
I'd rather be really good at something or not do it at all. — Scarlett Johansson
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in]… — Dick Cheney
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. — Benjamin Disraeli
For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas — William Shakespeare
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can… — Terry Tempest Williams
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. — Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story… — V. S. Pritchett
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through… — Darcy O'Brien
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It… — George Will
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write… — Eric Partridge
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than… — James Surowiecki
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other… — Max Euwe
Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind? — Wayne Dyer
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was… — David Hurn

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