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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work. — Anton Chekhov

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held. — Don Cupitt

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. — Anonymous

Mila, do you feel like searching for any particular in your life? And things happened not by coincidence, but rather, a call of destiny? — Cherry Seniel

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. — Judi Dench

surfaces are not for storage. Rather, surfaces are for activity, and should be kept clear at all other times. — Francine Jay

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. — Christian Louboutin

The breakfast was rather silent, but not with strain. — John D. MacDonald

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. — Ada Leverson

It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving! — Miranda J. Barrett

It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence. — Criss Jami

Life is not for understanding or to known rather it is for living & only for living — Nitin Yaduvanshi

We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first. — Haruki Murakami

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.' — Eve

So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask. — Kate Mosse

We are to work not to satisfy our own needs, but rather for the good of others and for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God here on earth. — Sunday Adelaja

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education. — Cat Cora

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. — Francis Bacon

Sometimes our greatest fears are not very far from us rather they are laying right next to us. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. — Christopher Plummer

Red Riding Hood is not a fairy tale, but rather a universal story about courage and growing up — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

You taught me that this world is not about gay people being accepted by us, but rather us being accepted by you. — Alec John Belle

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. — Dorothea Brande

Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences. — Sue Monk Kidd

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about. — Brandan Roberston

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than. — William McDavid

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. — Albert Ellis

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures — Kent Bach

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met. — William, Saroyan

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. — Imelda Marcos

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you. — Nityananda Das

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? — Ezra Taft Benson

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. — Benjamin Franklin

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do. — Richard J. Foster

I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all. — Steven Aitchison

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, — Viktor E. Frankl

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand. — Suze Orman

Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife. — Mark Watson

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church — J. Oswald Sanders

A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity. — Brian L. Weiss

The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind. — M.J. Stoddard

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — Robert Smithson

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant. — L.M. Montgomery

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. — Robert H. Schuller

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it. — Kate Atkinson

The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman. — Leonard Pitts

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas. — Albert Camus

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. — Francis Parker Yockey

Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less. — Anne Fortier

The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes. — Elias Khoury

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. — Kahlil Gibran

Heart and soul, gut and balls, I love you. There's no one I'd rather hold. Not until I'm eighty. Not until the day I die. — Kristen Ashley

Jesus does not make claims as a dictator removed from the battlefield but rather goes before us leading the charge as King of the Kingdom of God. — Jonah Books

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — E. E. Cummings

Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You. — Augustine Of Hippo

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it. — Alicia Keys

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side. — Felix Dzerzhinsky

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. — Nathan W. Morris

All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius. — Majid Kazmi

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. — Wassily Kandinsky

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha) — Helen Fielding

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass

If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for. — Oliver

I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again. — Charlaine Harris

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He's not the heart and flowers kind of guy, but he's the heart and soul kind, and fuck if every girl would rather that than flowers. — Jay McLean

Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
[It., Perche non i titoli illustrano gli uomini, ma gli uomini i titoli.] — Niccolo Machiavelli

When the "evil day" comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God! — Billy Graham

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki

an interaction is not a relationship; rather, a relationship is the remembered history of previous interactions. — Kevin J. O'Connor

I am not helping because I have already assumed so much, and I would rather let her suffer than be wrong. — Neil Hilborn

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. — Rory Vaden

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence. — Christian Finnegan

Your very presence makes other people feel awkward. You stand out when in fact you'd rather not. — Rachel Hartman

A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them. — Confucius

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.' — Paris Hilton

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? — William Badke

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She tried not to look mad - but she'd rather look mad than look like she'd spent all night thinking about how beautiful his lips were. — Rainbow Rowell

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love. — Sylvester Stallone

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. — Hugh Grant

why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? — Seneca.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. — Mark Rothko

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it's loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it. — Drexel Deal