#rather

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#find #interesting #large #life #like

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#great #ideas #rather #than #thinking

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#call #each #expression #guided #i

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#come #dying #many #mature #may

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. ↗

— Tom Waits

#free #front #i #lobotomy #me

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#changed #changes #focus #great #had

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#home #i #just #listen #listening