Rather Quotes

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

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.