#rather

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#eat #i #italian #life #life is too short

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#best #himself #his #inspires #listener

They want to create rather than decimate. ↗

— Paul Butterfield

#rather #than #want

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. ↗

— Cao Cao

#i #me #rather #than #world

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#actions #afraid #chose #dishonour #family

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#depressed #happy #help #help others #learn

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect. ↗

— James Carville

#i #predict #rather

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather