#rather

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' ↗

— Terry Prachett

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#digging #garden #growing #how #like

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#deal #entire #i #like #movie

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#being #calling #family #grew #i

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#fear #i #intimacy #person #public

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#behind #being #chased #chasing #coming

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face. ↗

— Doug Ose

#congress #face #fact #force #greatest