#rather

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#blood #born #does #duty #exist

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#expect #often #people #rather #reputation

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#against #back #because #believe #century

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#afterwards #comedy #comic #depths #dreadful

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#left #rather #recruit #reject #right

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! ↗

— Tom Metzger

#englishman #frenchman #jew #rather #smash

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#although #backup #being #charlize theron #couple

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#excuses #finished #gonna #i #like

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#body needs #crisis #days #doing #early

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#clarity #how #impress #mainly #people