Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

I'd rather die watching football than in my bed with my boots off.

They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind.

In arms even it is best to attack hearts rather than cities; to fight with sentiment is better than to fight with weapons.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.

I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately try to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In the integrated relational model presented here, sexuality and relational issues are not seen as alternative foci. Rather, sexuality is regarded as a central realm in which relational conflicts are shaped and played out.

There’s a side of me that seeks a stable life, but I tend to not fear change. And as time passes, rather than settle for one thing, I’m growing more inclined to challenge myself and try new things.

Rather than being a measure and consequence of the power of naturally occurring sexual desire, pornography is a measure of the extent to which people tend to prefer controlling desire through contrivance rather than being surprised by desire that spontaneously arises.

Of a slender figure, she had drooping shoulders and a rather long neck, slim but not to the point of being skinny. Her eyebrows were arched and in her eyes there was a look of quick intelligence and soft refinement.

No labor, according to Diogenes, is good but that which aims at producing courage and strength of soul rather than of body.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.