Rather Quotes
10955 quotes by 5999 authors
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My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the…
— William Cohen
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And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
— Herman Melville
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Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see…
— Samuel R. Delany
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It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason…
— Charles Hodge
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,…
— Jane Jacobs
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.…
— Jane Jacobs
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Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you…
— Joseph Bruchac
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,…
— Saul Bellow
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Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.
— Tariq Ramadan
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a…
— Hari Kunzru
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It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.…
— Malcolm X
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People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might…
— George Soros
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I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed…
— Antonin Scalia
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If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some…
— Elena Kagan
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
— Dr. John
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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There was a time when women social activists asked men to stand up for their rights, but this time we will do it by ourselves.…
— Malala Yousafzai
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