Not rather Quotes

“To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around you. To just be quiet in your mind for a little minute. There are paradises even yet on the abandoned plains of the earth -- and they are not filled with fecund flowering Edens but rather just with sweet unerring silences.”

“Who would not rather trust and be deceived?”

“There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.”

“Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?”

“There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.”

“Why waste Life trying to have more than what we need. Why not rather Enjoy Life by using what we have.”

“I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.”

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

“Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere love of it?”