#rather

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ↗

— Epictetus

#be careful #better #careful #hopes #ignorant

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#california #desert #design #dream #dwellers

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#best #himself #his #inspires #listener

They want to create rather than decimate. ↗

— Paul Butterfield

#rather #than #want

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. ↗

— Cao Cao

#i #me #rather #than #world

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#actions #afraid #chose #dishonour #family