Rather Quotes

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

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

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

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 like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.