I Would Rather Quotes

#1. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Eugene V. Debs

#3. Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I'd rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Davy Crockett

#5. I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Stanley Baldwin

#6. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

#7. I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Jason Bateman

#8. I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.

Neil Gaiman

#9. What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

James Corden

#10. I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

John Hodgman

#11. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Henry Adams

#14. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over issues like assisted suicide, gay rights, birth control, and sexual morality.

Jerry A. Coyne

#16. 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

#17. I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Chuck Smith

#18. I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

Roxane Gay

#19. There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

Kat Dennings

#20. We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

J.J. Abrams

#21. If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Eugene V. Debs

#22. I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.

David Drake

#23. If there's anything I've learned in my three centuries, it's that I would rather feel pain, sorrow, and misery than go through life feeling nothing. I have learned to cherish my humanity with all it's beauty and bile.

Brittany Comeaux

#24. When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk)
And now? (Taryn)
Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

Joan Of Arc

#26. Yeah, well, I try to think for myself once in a while, rather than buy in to the ridiculous propaganda the media would have us believe.

Marissa Meyer

#27. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D. Rockefeller

#28. I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you're allowed to shoot your enemies.

Brian McClellan

#29. Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

Garcelle Beauvais

#30. The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

Paula Heller Garland

#31. 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

#32. My job is - I make socks. That's all I do. I don't necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this - me doing what I do - than being around my family.

Rob Kardashian

#33. The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.

Michael Irvin

#34. i would rather be an angel than God

Bram Stoker

#35. Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#36. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

Jean Reno

#37. 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

#38. I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Kim Kardashian

#39. If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

John Mayer

#40. I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone.

Josh Bernstein

#41. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

#42. I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

Jeff Dunham

#43. Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

Ingrid Newkirk

#44. I would rather die than hide like a coward.

Jalpa Williby

#45. Had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.

Karl Pilkington

#46. 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

#47. I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

Louis Jourdan

#48. I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

Fannie Hurst

#49. I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

John Varvatos

#50. And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Norman Mailer

#51. I don't know what I think. All I know is that most of the time, I would rather be with him that anyone else I know.

Jojo Moyes

#52. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#53. I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

Richard MacDonald

#54. I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.

Xabi Alonso

#55. When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.

Seth Rogen

#56. I would much rather have you believe in something I don't agree with than to accept everything blindly.

Adil Hussain

#57. Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Italo Calvino

#58. I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

William Holden

#59. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Robert Browning

#60. Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

A. E. Hotchner

#61. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

Michelle Hodkin

#62. I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

William Kidd

#63. Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

Lauren Graham

#64. For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

Mick Jagger

#65. I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.

Jen Lancaster

#66. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Robert E.Lee

#67. Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world."
"I would rather Winslow do it.

Julie Garwood

#68. I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

Kathleen Hanna

#69. I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

A.S. Neill

#70. I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people - who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves - would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.

Julia Serano

#71. No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

Aldo Leopold

#72. 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

#73. I think most of us would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich we would be doing something else.

John Green

#74. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

C.J. Carlyon

#75. It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story
one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Brandon Sanderson

#76. If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#77. I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Miranda Richardson

#78. When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures

Brian May

#79. There's something about having your choices taken from you that is equally liberating and frightening. Handing over control to a person is a big deal. A showing of trust. And sometimes, I would like to be taken on a ride rather than drive.

Belle Aurora

#80. I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

Paris Hilton

#81. That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

Ernest Hemingway,

#82. I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

Richard Gere

#83. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.

Sanober Khan

#84. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

#85. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

Robert Harling

#86. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#87. Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

Christopher Hitchens

#88. I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it's much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.

Seymour Cray

#89. But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.

Orson Scott Card

#90. I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.

Will Schwalbe

#91. I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

Thomas A. Edison

#92. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.

I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.

Brenda Lochinger

#93. I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y

Michael Buble

#94. If I could choose the perfect Dad
There's no one I would rather
Have Dad, than you Dad
Coz you go further, Father
Happy Birthday Father

John Walter Bratton

#95. Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

Johanna Spyri

#96. I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you

Beto Jimenez

#97. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

Eugene V. Debs

#98. I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

John Shelby Spong

#99. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

John Masefield

#100. I would rather be kind than wise.

Debasish Mridha