Rather Quotes
10955 Rather quotes by 5999 unique authors
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I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new…
— Scott McNealy
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to…
— Plutarch
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
— Byron Katie
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
— Mark Tobey
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to…
— Robert Winston
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech…
— John Keats
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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
— Frank Moore Colby
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we…
— Francis of Assisi
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It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
— Augustus Hopkins Strong
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If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my…
— Unknown Author
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
— Albert Einstein
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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use…
— Norman Cousins
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
— Mark Twain
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
— William Hazlitt
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange…
— Bob Brown
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
— Khalil Gibran
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People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
— Robert Keith Leavitt
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