Quotes of: Rather Keyword

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

To Catch an Heiress

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

Culture and History

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

Correspondence

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

I would rather be part of a show that aims for best ever and comes in 2nd than aims for mediocrity and achieves his goal.” – Joshua Jackson (about Fringe TV series)

Doubt

I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.

Down and Out in Bugtussle: The Mad Fat Road to Happiness

Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.' 'No? Spelt like Yes?' 'That's right.

Doctor No

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

The Darkest Night

Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?

Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point

I think you're wrong." "Well I think you're naive," Hayley snapped. "Maybe," Marley conceded, starting to walk away. "But I'd rather be that than a bully like you.

Dream On

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Disgrace

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

The Dark Tower

What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather have this one night with you than another thousand years.

Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

Essays and Aphorisms

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

England, England

The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

The Enduement Of Power: Being Filled With The Holy Spirit

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Elric: The Stealer of Souls

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.

Embracing the Power of Truth