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Rather Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time…
- You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.…
- The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept…
- Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or…
- I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
- There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the…
- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
- I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it…
- Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
- You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about…
- I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov