Rather Quotes

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

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.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.