Rather Quotes

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

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 egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.