#rather

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#change #control #definition #definitions #freedom

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#details #exactly #fast #get #goes

Find fault with thyself rather than with others. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#find #others #rather #than #thyself

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

#encouraged #europe #forefront #germany #goal

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. ↗

— Diana Krall

#anything #figured #i #mission #out

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#behind #body #comes #concern #conform

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. ↗

— James Thurber

#artists #become #depth #humor #longer

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. ↗

— Mark Tobey

#avenues #believe #canals #come #i

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#am #author #election #good #i