If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?
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 were all doing something rather different.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Uh-uh, I would rather got hrough the front door and tackle the giants than have to life-saving-suck-kiss you for five minutes.
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
I'd rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don't want to know what's going to happen. It can't be good.
I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.
