Rather Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

Rather be dead than cool.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.