Rather Quotes

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.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.