#rather

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. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#above #bears #blazing #hope #passively

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#attack #courage #dangers #endure #principal

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#die #i #life #live #meaningful

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#end #hoping #i #judge #life

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall! ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#captained #carnegie #carnegie hall #come #cricket

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. ↗

— Mary Archer

#good #i #plenty #prison #rather

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#beautiful #between #christianity #church #difference

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

Most people would rather give than get affection. ↗

— Aristotle

#get #give #most #people #rather