#rather

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#century #change #consideration #gain #i

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance. ↗

— Michael Flatley

#burger #dance #got #having #i

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#asked #his #life #man #meaning

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#debt #dinner #go #out #rather

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#back #being #give #killing #lethal

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#church #clothes #come #many #rather