Rather Quotes

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

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.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

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

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.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Rather be dead than cool.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.