Rather Quotes

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.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.