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Rather Quotes by Mark Haddon
- Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?…
- The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted…
- There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
- I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the…
- I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — 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
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott