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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash

Life, Live, Living

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Happen, Goal

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine

Women, Character

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong

Religion, Ego, Give

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
Joy Page

Life, Stand, Choose

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

Before, Old, Perhaps

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, Teacher, Wish

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
John Avlon

Politics, Reason, Both

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
Daisaku Ikeda

Life, Happiness, Focus

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt

Nation, English, Owned

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift

Humility, Pride, Vanity

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller

Before, America, Young

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
Sophocles

Win, Acting, Miss

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
Tori Spelling

Love, Mom, Easy

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson

Love, Liberty, Rich

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
Kim Kardashian

Life, Happy, Live

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

True, Minds, Word

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas

Courage, Act, Endure

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
Bill Hybels

Same, Problems, Else

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Truth, Justice, Lie

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

Men, True, Fail

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus

Ignorant, Evils

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, War, Attitude

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

Nature, Support, United

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

Today, Lost, Down

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Wrong, Another

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese

Good, Long, Said

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.
Megan Fox

Time, Sex, Mind

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor

Judge, Kindness, Job

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