Quotes of: Rather Keyword

I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true enviro...

Brian Awehali

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Emile or On Education

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

Finnikin of the Rock

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Gorgias

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

A Game of Thrones

Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

Her Unwelcome Inheritance

The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.

Awoken

Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

Between the Lines

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

The Benefactor

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Clarence Day

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

Natalie Imbruglia

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

Andy Partridge

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Richard Eyre

Sometimes what matters in not what you go looking for, but rather what you find when you're not looking.

An Amish Garden

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

De Amicitia

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Anarchism