Quotes of: Rather Keyword

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from inside out.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.

Guilt Free

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Great North Road

I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

The Gone-Away World

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Hidden Away

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the belo...

Happiness and Contemplation

Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.

Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience

People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.

Human Resources for the Heart, the Soul, and the FunnyBone

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A real man can use power, rather than let power use him

How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

How to Build a Girl

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.

The Bane Chronicles