Rather Quotes

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

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

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

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.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.