Rather Quotes

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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

They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-"gay" piece - rather than help it.

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.