I Would Rather Quotes

#1. I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.

Lorraine Heath

#2. 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

#3. ... I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Edmund Morris

#4. I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

Sally Quinn

#5. If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

Carlos Mencia

#6. If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Belle Boyd

#7. I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be - that proves I love him better than myself.

Emily Bronte

#8. To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Amanda Smith

#9. Places I Would Rather Be, Edition 1821
By Lady Olivia Bevelstoke
France
With Miranda
With Miranda in France
In bed with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with either with a cup of chocolate or a newspaper

Julia Quinn

#10. I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

Andy Murray

#11. 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

#12. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

Marian Dragulescu

#13. I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

Sandy Duncan

#14. I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock.

Lester Roloff

#15. Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

Janet Fitch

#16. I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Henry Flagler

#17. I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

Stephen Jay Gould

#18. I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.

Adam Young Owl

#19. 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

#20. I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.

Peggy Randall-Martin

#21. I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.

Megan Fox

#22. Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

James Wolfe

#23. I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?

Alyssa Hervis

#24. She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person.

Rett MacPherson

#25. 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

#26. I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

J. Paul Getty

#27. Inspiration Unlimited is more than an e-Magazine. I would rather call it an alchemy of learning and inspiration. It really inspires many people in many ways.

Lokendra Singh

#28. I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

Holly Lisle

#29. 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

#30. I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.

Kanye West

#31. All I can say is that you make me ... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

Jojo Moyes

#32. I would rather listen to my dog bark at a crow than hear a man swear that he loves me

William Shakespeare

#33. I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

Jim Kolbe

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#37. I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Grover Cleveland

#38. You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.

Abhijit Naskar

#39. Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

Andrew Weil

#40. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Epicurus

#41. I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

James D. Sass

#42. I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!

Joel Osteen

#43. I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#44. 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

#45. When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

Chris Adrian

#46. I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#47. I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

Yao Ming

#48. I would rather be whole than good.

Carl Jung

#49. 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

#50. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh

#51. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

#52. I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

Ian McEwan

#53. I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

#55. I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

Alan Arkin

#56. I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.

Doug Martsch

#57. I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people ... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Lisa Kleypas

#58. I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

Young Thug

#59. How I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be stupid at both than to choose to employ my good qualities as badly as that.

Michel De Montaigne

#60. I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich.

Debasish Mridha

#61. I would rather die than stay away from you.

Stephenie Meyer

#62. It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Abraham Lincoln

#63. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. - Jack London

Jack London

#64. I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

#65. I would rather be called funny than pretty.

Nia Vardalos

#66. I would rather kill her myself than let my father take her as a punishment in my cycle.
Because that's what love is.
Protection.

J.A. Huss

#67. Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

Francis Crick

#68. I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#69. 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

#70. I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

Patrice Leconte

#71. I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

Morning Star

#72. I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.

Lindsay Duncan

#73. If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Deepak Chopra

#74. It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Ava Dellaira

#75. 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

#76. I would rather just do the things I want to do.

Stanley Tucci

#77. I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

#78. Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.

Abigail Haas

#79. I would rather be thrown in a fiery pit of hell than return to Wales,"
Unable to tolerate him for another second, Helen stood and said coolly, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Vance.

Lisa Kleypas

#80. I would rather face my fears than lose, but most people would rather lose than face their fears.

Orrin Woodward

#81. I got the sneaky feeling that I was present at something at which I would rather not be present. It made me think of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Of Oprah Winfrey.

Herman Koch

#82. I would rather be dead than not read

Annie Proulx

#83. Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.

Murasaki Shikibu

#84. I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#85. I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#86. If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

Cynthia Kenyon

#87. I knew they would kill me when they found out, but ... " He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. "I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

Marissa Meyer

#88. I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

John McCain

#89. I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!

Wilhelm Steinitz

#90. Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.

Dave Franklin

#91. 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

#92. I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

Don Imus

#93. I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

Xuanzang

#94. If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

Van Morrison

#95. So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.

Gabrielle Zevin

#96. To kill deliberately is very wrong," said Chen Gong. "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," was Cao Cao's reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.

Luo Guanzhong

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

Michael Vartan

#100. I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

Bill Maher