#rather

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#addition #areas #clear #content #cut

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#describe #folks #foreign #go #home

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. ↗

— Democritus

#discover #gain #i #kingdom #persia

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#experiments #millennium #political #politics #rather

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#already #art #begun #completion #informs

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#civilization #constitute #enough #exists #masses

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. ↗

— John Boorman

#both #both sides #david #disciplined #englishman

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies

I'd rather be good than lucky. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#i #lucky #rather #than