#rather

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#destruction #distant #earth #fight #future

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#argue #creation #current #does #exhaustion

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#continuity #emphasis #family #hence #individual

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#howard #human #john #kind #made

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise. ↗

— Jean Charest

#because #canadian #exchange #expertise #first

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bureaucrats #comes #corporate #digging #government

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows. ↗

— Eric Carr

#been #being #big #biggest #different

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#did #failure #first #five #i