#rather

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#assume #events #great #his #invention

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#chose #had #i #me #never

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#gesture #least #mean #rather #rude

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. ↗

— Heraclitus

#boredom #control #controlled #only #over

It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#complete #constructive #early #early work #education

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#good #i #i can #i think #like

I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights. ↗

— Dana Hill

#around #because #i #i love #know

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #boring #dull #image #left