Quotes of: Rather Keyword

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

The Night Circus

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

No Hope for Gomez!

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Nobody Knows My Name

MURRY:[Father] Time is kind of a big deal and I'd rather not tick him off. MOLLY: Heh. Tick.

New Year's Thieve

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Notes from Underground

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Notes from Underground

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Love Letters to the Dead

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Life, the Universe and Everything

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Life, the Universe and Everything

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Light Shining In The Forest

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.

Law & Gospel

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Lover at Last

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

Loving God with All Your Mind

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

Always surround yourself with people who lift you up, rather than hold you down.

Look into the stillness

Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.

The Little Silkworm

I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.

Letters

My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.

On Love

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Little Women

Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort.

Mary Jane's Cookbook: From the Heart of America