Rather Quotes

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

I'd rather win than be a showman.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.