#rather

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

#consideration #every #great #other #overcomes

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#bitter #bitter end #drivers #end #general

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. ↗

— Johnny Giles

#empty #front #full #house #i

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. ↗

— Michael Giles

#actually #arranging #between #bridge #changes

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#accused #argument #because #disagrees #free

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act. ↗

— John Goodman

#boy #i #just #lazy #rather

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up. ↗

— James Harden

#get #gets #going #guys #i

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#brain #computers #connections #danger #develop

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! ↗

— Nick Hornby

#books #exclude #excluded #feel #i