Rather Quotes
10955 Rather quotes by 5999 unique authors
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Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen…
— Erich Fromm
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I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They…
— Colin Firth
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The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult.…
— Dalai Lama
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Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather…
— David Cronenberg
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Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and…
— Meredith Monk
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I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.
— Dana Burnet
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I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
— William Shakespeare
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I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or…
— Randy Newman
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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve…
— Warren Buffett
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Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the…
— Rajneesh
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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in…
— C.S. Lewis
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a…
— Anne Perry
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright…
— Seneca the Younger
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In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them…
— Paul K. Chappell
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Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce…
— Wayne Dyer
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Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!
— Helena Rubinstein
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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
— Mark Twain
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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
— Aldous Huxley
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After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
— Marshall Goldsmith
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Renowned management guru Peter F.Drucker looked back at his 65-year consulting career shortly before he died. He concluded that great leaders could either be 'charismatic…
— Robert I. Sutton
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