Top 100 Rather Than Quotes
#1. He drinks, even though drinking always makes him remember rather than forget.
David Levithan
#3. I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'
Simon Cowell
#4. He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took the form of a deep patience inhabiting him, rather than a feeling of cheer or even hope
Michael Stein
#5. If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#7. Better hyperactive rather than radioactive, I always say.
Stephanie Tom
#8. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.
Halford Luccock
#9. Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the entire show?'
Patton Oswalt
#10. Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa
#11. Rather than assuming make sure before you speak about the fact. Glory lies in your intentions.
Kishore Bansal
#12. Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
Christian Marclay
#13. Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.
Robert Harris
#14. The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
Christopher Hitchens
#15. I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.
Jenny Saville
#16. Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#17. Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.
Josip Novakovich
#18. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what 'is' for what 'should be' pursues his downfall rather than his preservation;
David Mitchell
#19. What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.
David Suzuki
#20. Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.
Shaquille O'Neal
#21. Should - a word of anguish rather than consolation.
Gena Showalter
#22. My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran
#23. I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.
Dave McKean
#24. Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.
Debbie Ford
#25. Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
Anne McKevitt
#27. It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.
Noreena Hertz
#28. The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.
Emmett Shear
#29. I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
John Astin
#30. I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
Freya Stark
#31. Leadership is creating an environment in which people want to be part of the organization and not just work for the organization. Leadership creates an environment that makes people want to, rather than have to, do.
Horst Schulze
#32. A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.
Taylor Wang
#33. Through the experience of meditation itself, the meditator becomes conscious that the practice of meditation is an end in itself rather than a means towards an end.
David Fontana
#34. Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.
Tara Brach
#35. My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
Janet Fitch
#36. Most of us have a lot more experience being consumers than producers, so we tend to view things through the lens of demand rather than supply.
Steven D. Levitt
#37. Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.
Billy Graham
#38. I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.
David Plotz
#39. You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And
Laurie R. King
#40. Honorable, Bernita mine. To look after those who can't look after themselves, to attend to duty rather than convenience. You have reminded me of what honor requires, and I'm grateful. That last word - grateful - wasn't one Nita heard very often.
Grace Burrowes
#41. I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.
Magenta Periwinkle
#42. In 2010, Iceland - with a lesbian prime minister and a parliament that is 50 percent female - became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reasons. I
Caitlin Moran
#43. Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally ... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.
Stanley Greenspan
#44. Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
T. Boone Pickens
#45. I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self
#46. The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
#47. Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"
Dennis Wholey
#50. Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
T.D. Jakes
#51. Put your mind where your body is. One day at a time forces you to reckon with the instant you actually occupy, rather than living in fantasy la-la that never comes.
Mary Karr
#52. For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.
Harbhajan Singh
#53. I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
Anthony Head
#54. The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.
Frank Wilczek
#55. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.
Walter Bender
#57. If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive ...
Stephen Richards
#58. Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Shawn Achor
#59. I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
Tim O'Reilly
#60. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
Bruce Lee
#61. Rather, it provided a literary framework within which the author could effectively express the Hebraic conviction that one God created the world by bringing order out of chaos. He was interested in thematic rather than chronological organization. The
Gregory A. Boyd
#62. It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'
Virender Sehwag
#63. Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
Jack Kelley
#64. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.
Megan Marshall
#65. Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
Timothy Keller
#66. But the original was there as well - more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
Sarah Dessen
#67. You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.
Sun Myung Moon
#68. While all important enterprises need careful organization, it is the organization that needs organizing, rather than the enterprise.
Terry Pratchett
#69. Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are - or who you want to be.
Adam M. Grant
#70. In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand.
Chris Matakas
#71. We've learned it's better to work together to create more possibilities for all, rather than cling to past prejudices.
Lisa Carlisle
#72. Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
Theresa May
#73. I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
Anais Nin
#74. When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.
Abbas Kiarostami
#75. I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
Carre Otis
#76. I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.
Trent Reznor
#77. All too often, "falling in love" with the fantasy of romantic love becomes the aphrodisiac, rather than learning to love the real person and in real conditions of existence.
Chrys Ingraham
#78. It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.
Brigham Young
#79. There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
Rachel Cusk
#80. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.
Gary Zukav
#81. There was this cold monster inside him, this beast that was impossible to spit out. However hard he fought, however much he denied it, tried to make each morning the first rather than the last, he was waging a war he had lost in advance.
Caryl Ferey
#82. We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
Tim Fargo
#83. His protective wall had become a fortress holding him hostage rather than giving sanctuary.
Tammara Webber
#84. Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.
Max Lucado
#85. The best way to preserve a child's vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.
Jacob Liberman
#86. It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
Antonin Scalia
#87. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
Septima Poinsette Clark
#88. I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
E. J. Hughes
#89. I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
Dominic Sherwood
#90. I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
Randy Bachman
#91. Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
Gerry Lindgren
#92. Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design ... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
Edward Tufte
#93. The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
Alan Alda
#94. This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#95. Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
Milton Friedman
#96. One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
Albert Camus
#97. When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.
Macklemore
#98. fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even
Edwin Harkness Spina
#99. Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
Joseph Campbell
#100. -to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!
Richard Flanagan
