Rather Quotes

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

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.

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

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

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.