My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
I’d much rather wear out than rust out.
Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
Don’t avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.
I’d rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
I don’t aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I’d rather focus on honesty than popularity.
I love having a shaved head. I’d rather not deal with hair if I don’t have to. I like not thinking about it. A shaved head and letting my beard go requires the least amount of anything.
I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
If I were in a room full of people, I’d rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
What I’ve come to know is that in life, it’s not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
For me, hunting is a natural fact rather than a choice.
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
People don’t like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner’s hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Children need models rather than critics.
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
I see no point in holding grudges. I’d rather not have any negativity within me.
I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
It seems to be the modern Canadian approach to Indigenous people: rather than deny their problems or accuse them of creating them through their own laziness, which was how my parents’ generation dealt with the question, we now smother them with humid apologies and abnegation, but not actual compensation.
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
I’d rather tell you how I really feel.
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I’m right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
I’m the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it’s not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
If you’re going to be sexy in a photo, you’d better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Everyone knows I’m married; I just don’t discuss it. Because it’s a part of my life that I’d rather keep private… When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
I’d rather be lucky than good.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I’d rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
I’d rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
