Rather Quotes

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

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'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.