Rather Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (R) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#1) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#07) List-
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
William Heath Robinson
Subject: Mental Health QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Now rather thank I God there is no risk
Wilfred Owen
Subject: World War I QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that`s training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed
Thomas More
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I`ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
Keywords: ambition :: boredom :: die :: exhaustion :: got :: great :: of :: rather :: than :: to :: veSubject: Ambition Quotes :: Boredom QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Deitz
Keywords: be :: betrayal :: betrayed :: death :: deceit :: delivers :: die :: has :: hope :: in :: is :: it :: no :: of :: one :: precisely :: promised :: rather :: should :: slaughter :: than :: the :: there :: though :: what :: willfulSubject: Betrayal Quotes :: Hope QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Subject: Honor QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Subject: Success QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love
Robert Tizon
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Andy Irvine
Subject: Science QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A good manager is a man who isn`t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
H. S. M. Burns
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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
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I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
General George S. Patton
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn`t come as a result of getting something we don`t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Keonig
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb
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Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.
Ernest A. Jones
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I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow
Dwight David Eisenhower
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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
