#rather

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#any #ask #because #energy #invent

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

#been #days #death #god #hasten

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#bear #dictate #direction #him #his

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#country #depends #every #form #government

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#any #between #culture #denigrate #does

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#before #best #dancer #fall #i

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#because #biscuits #communicate #disease #front

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#cool #curse #curses #eloquently #father

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#created #elected #except #gaza #government