#rather

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? ↗

— James D. Houston

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I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins. ↗

— Jane Howard

#lot #people #rather #than #their

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#attainment #fully #goes #great #human

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#australia #dancing #going #like #live

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#else #everyone #face #faces #finding

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. ↗

— William James

#dire need #draws #everyday #find #hour

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#like #me #microphone #more #over

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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