Top 100 Quotes About I Would Rather Be
#1. 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
#2. I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]
Joseph Dalton Hooker
#3. I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.
Ted Michael
#4. I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you.
Anupama Chopra
#5. Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#6. Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
Alice Sebold
#7. I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
Usain Bolt
#8. I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.
Jane Austen
#9. I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#10. I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends ... Farewell, David Crockett. His
Bill O'Reilly
#11. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.
Amie Kaufman
#13. I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
Edward Snowden
#14. I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
Henry Rollins
#15. I would rather be a free animal then a cage animal
Beto Jimenez
#16. I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
George R R Martin
#18. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. The
Gillian Flynn
#20. I would rather be a spectacular failure than a mediocre success.
Kuo Pao Kun
#21. I don't agree with him. I would rather be dead the empty, like the factionless
Veronica Roth
#22. I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#23. That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.
Merv Griffin
#24. I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
#25. But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
Robert Hunter
#26. I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
Ellen DeGeneres
#28. I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
John Updike
#29. The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
Niall Ferguson
#30. Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
Ram Dass
#32. I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
Sally Kirkland
#33. I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
Nellie Bly
#34. I'm not a hundred percent sure why I'm here, only that it feels good to be somewhere where no one hates me. It's sad that I would rather be with a total stranger than with people that should've been my family.
Joan Reginaldo
#35. I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.
Louis C.K.
#36. Because I would rather be damned for something I do, rather than something I can do but don't otherwise bother to try. Ia
Jean Johnson
#37. I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
Jesse Ventura
#39. What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
Conn Iggulden
#40. I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.
Henry Flagler
#44. I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
Holly Lisle
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat
#48. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus
#49. I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#50. I would rather be whole than good.
Carl Jung
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich.
Debasish Mridha
#55. 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
#56. I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss Jami
#57. 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
#58. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity ... I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Dinkar Kalotra
#59. I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
Tilda Swinton
#60. I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
Walter Hagen
#61. If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.
Cynthia Kenyon
#63. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard
#64. I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Aneurin Bevan
#65. Well, anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the flush of iridescent pink on an intersection pigeon's charcoal neck.
Janet Fitch
#66. I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid
Ivana Trump
#67. I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.
Ricky Hatton
#68. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#69. I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee
#70. I would rather be blunt and heard then quiet and misunderstood.
Michael Joshua
#71. They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
George MacDonald
#72. But ... if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted?
He glittered at me for a moment, then said, I would rather be mad.
Patricia Duncker
#73. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice
#74. As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
Jimmy Carr
#75. I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
Ken Gire
#76. I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.
Cynthia Nixon
#77. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
Roxane Gay
#78. I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
Behdad Sami
#79. I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. I let you drag me here because there isn't a place in the world I would rather be than wherever you go.
F.E. Feeley Jr.
#81. It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#82. I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
Lisa See
#83. How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
Albert Einstein
#84. I would rather be considered an imbecile, than an old fashioned and dry gal.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#85. Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles
Homer
#86. I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve.
Nikki Rowe
#87. I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.
Russell T. Davies
#89. I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.
Aubrey O'Day
#91. I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#92. I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.
Lea Michele
#93. I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
Carl Sagan
#94. I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
Frank O'Hara
#96. I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.
Chris Page
#97. I would rather be a womaniser than a sodomiser.
Habeeb Akande
#98. I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind
Joshua Wright
#99. I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.
Reed Morano
#100. Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.
Fan Bingbing
