Rather Quotes

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.'

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.