Top 100 I Would Rather Have Quotes
#1. I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
Chuck Smith
#2. I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Vanna Bonta
#3. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy
Dean Martin
#4. His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.
Rio Ferdinand
#5. I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Marian Seldes
#6. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love ... if it hurts this much.
Chitose Yagami
#8. I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
Michelle Hodkin
#10. For me, I would rather have a small gift given with great love.
Joyce Vissell
#11. I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.
Sienna Miller
#12. I would rather have the whole world against me but know that the Almighty God is with me, be called an apostate but know that I have the approval of the God of glory
Mehdi Dibaj
#13. I would rather have an elephant with a flatulence problem sit on my face.
Samantha Young
#14. I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Norm Sloan
#15. I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#16. As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Steve Maraboli
#17. I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#19. As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
John Milton
#20. I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#21. Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing better!
Christine Taylor
#22. I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.
Kristen Wiig
#23. I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron
#24. I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Boy George
#25. But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
Jane Austen
#26. I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.
Jon Favreau
#27. I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.
Avicenna
#28. I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#29. Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.
Cynthia Lennon
#30. In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card
#31. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.
Joseph Pulitzer
#32. It is a good deal better to have life in Christ and God than any where else. I would rather have my life hid with Christ in God than be in Eden as Adam was. Adam might have remained in Paradise for 16,000 years, and then fallen, but if ours is hid in Christ, how safe!
Dwight L. Moody
#33. I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.
Leon Jaworski
#34. I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything.
Sylvia Plath
#35. I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.
Amy Landecker
#36. In those months I thought often of what I was trying to do, of how hard it is to keep alive someone who doesn't want to stay alive.
That was what I thought: that I would rather have him suffering and alive - than dead.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. I would rather have an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions commanded by a deer!" Here
Steven Pressfield
#38. When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!
Susan B. Anthony
#39. I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.
Jasika Nicole
#40. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.
William Carlos Williams
#41. I would rather have the favor of God than the blessing of a million men, for the favor of God takes the work of my hands and leaves a million men utterly astonished at the greatness of the feat.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
#43. I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.
Fergie
#44. If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
Stuart Symington
#45. What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!
Nami
#46. And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face
And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space
And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames
And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place
Neil Finn
#47. Personally, I would rather have a boy notice the book I was reading and tell me he liked it, too. That seems like a better sign of caring about someone than a kiss some French guy invented.
Karen Harrington
#48. I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.
Brian Lamb
#50. I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
Samuel Johnson
#53. I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.
Masi Oka
#54. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I
Charles Dickens
#55. I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
Jane Austen
#56. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at
Nora Ephron
#57. For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston
#58. Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
James Wolfe
#59. I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.
Marjorie Fleming
#60. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Marian Dragulescu
#61. Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
Ashley Greene
#62. There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.
Kourtney Kardashian
#63. I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
Benjamin Franklin
#64. I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#65. I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.
George Armstrong Custer
#66. I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.
Connor Franta
#67. As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.
Newt Gingrich
#68. I would rather have a moment of everything with you than a lifetime of nothing
Samantha Towle
#69. And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.
Ariel Levy
#70. I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read.
Jo Grix
#71. I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
Lady Gaga
#72. I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Mark Twain
#73. Sculpture is an art of the open air ... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.
Henry Moore
#74. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
Graham Greene
#75. I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman
#76. I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night.
Conrad
Jenny Han
#77. No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.
Naomi Novik
#78. I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.
Sylvia Plath
#79. Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?
When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.
Donna Lynn Hope
#80. After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato The Elder
#81. It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.
Julianne Hough
#83. I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#84. I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.
Patricia A. McKillip
#85. I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#86. I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
Ani DiFranco
#87. I would rather have had this moment with you - just this one night - than centuries with someone else ...
Deborah Harkness
#88. I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.
Aaron Watson
#89. I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
Jennifer O'Neill
#90. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.
-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
Ariel Levy
#91. I was a pretty good DB, but I realized one day I would rather have someone trying to tackle me than me trying to tackle guys like Jerome Bettis and Eddie George.
Clinton Portis
#92. I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
Kim Kardashian
#93. That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.
Ernest Hemingway,
#94. I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
Jacques Villeneuve
#95. I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.
William Holden
#96. I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again.
Charlaine Harris
#97. By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#98. Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.
Peter Uihlein
#99. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
Sanober Khan
#100. There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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