Rather Quotes

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.