No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Willem de Kooning

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.
Jo Brand

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Marilyn Manson

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno