Rather Quotes

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.