#rather

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#great #ideas #rather #than #thinking

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#call #each #expression #guided #i

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#come #dying #many #mature #may

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground. ↗

— Chogyam Trungpa

#conquering #earth #ground #often #people

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#better #better mother #fortunately #human #human being

I'd rather go naked than wear fur. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#go #i #naked #rather #than

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#confession #good #only #rather #remedy

I'd rather be homesick than home. ↗

— Leo Vroman

#homesick #i #rather #than

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#behind #down #driving #highway #hour

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. ↗

— Rick Warren

#acting #by the time #culture #downstream #i