Quotes About Rather

#1. Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Leonard Nimoy

#2. When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Dodie Smith

#3. Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? ... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Mark Twain

#4. Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Khalil Gibran

#5. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. And the sad truth is, I want to be all those people. I'd sooner die forked a thousand times in that house than wake up to a world without monsters or goddesses. I'd rather play the monster myself.

Edgar Cantero

#7. Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.

John Medina

#8. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Paul Allen

#9. I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Elon Musk

#10. We wish for more in life rather than more of it.

Jean Ingelow

#11. Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates.

M.L. Wonder

#12. I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Brittany Murphy

#13. We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

Maureen Johnson

#14. Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Pat Mitchell

#15. Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Tom Baker

#16. I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

Richard Rogers

#18. We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

Anna Funder

#19. Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

Bucky Sinister

#20. It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

James Beattie

#22. To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

#23. I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Kristy Swanson

#24. I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Richard Petty

#25. I like it when a script shows you something new, and you can learn something through the journey of a film rather than being told things you already know.

Lucy Fry

#26. One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

Shane Claiborne

#27. The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.

Tracy L. Higley

#28. We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#29. All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

Murray Rothbard

#30. Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

Nick Harkaway

#31. The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Martin Buber

#32. I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Kate Atkinson

#33. Life rather demands discomfort.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Bertrand Russell

#35. Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

Virginia Foxx

#36. Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Augustus Hare

#37. Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Homer

#38. Yea, if a man possess all things he cannot be content, - the greater his possessions the less will be his contentment, for the heart cannot be satisfied with possessions, but rather in detachment from all things and in poverty of spirit.

San Juan De La Cruz

#39. [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

Lara Flynn Boyle

#40. Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Eric Maisel

#41. you prefer to listen rather than read (sometimes called "ristening"), try a text-to-speech app for your mobile device.

Jeff Blum

#42. I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.

Philip Yancey

#43. In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Annalee Newitz

#44. Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.

Beth Moore

#45. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.

Rosamund Lupton

#46. Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.

Twinkle Khanna

#47. This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

Paul Nurse

#48. We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

Shane Claiborne

#49. There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.

Michael Horton

#50. Thus, a mindset of responsiveness considers time efficiency from the customer's or requestor's point of view rather than cost-efficiency from the service provider's point of view.

Sriram Narayan

#51. Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Jay Lake

#52. Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials
they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think
rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

Alan Arkin

#53. It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them - or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down.

Eugene Ionesco

#54. Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

Sri Aurobindo

#55. When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Frank Herbert

#56. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

Ian Gawler

#57. You forsake all that you hold dear,
for a dream that is not your own;
you would rather live a lie
than live your life alone

Lang Leav

#58. Physiological arousal or activation drives people to talk and share. We need to get people excited or make them laugh. We need to make them angry rather than sad.

Jonah Berger

#59. It is only cowards who reduce the tremendously valuable capacity of wondering to questions. The really brave, the courageous person, leaves it as it is. Rather than changing it into a question, he jumps into the mystery. Rather than trying to control it, he allows the mystery to possess him.

Osho

#60. I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

Groucho Marx

#61. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.

H.M. Ward

#62. ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [ ... ] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Aeschylus

#63. I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

Charles Spurgeon

#64. The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.

Edward T. Welch

#65. As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#66. The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Elizabeth Alexander

#67. As a young man, I used to sport a rather ragged beard [ ... ]; it doesn't suit and in its untended state I can often come to look like a set of sensory organs lost in a raspberry bush.

Claire North

#68. Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Cat Stevens

#69. more than others see. Be more than others are. You're too interesting to be single layered. Too many people go through life seeing only what they expect. They view life waiting to be heard, rather than listening and seeing what others do not.

Melissa Foster

#70. Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#71. I started shedding friends like layers of winter clothing and found that even if I got cold, I would rather build my own damn fire. I was better off without them." I shrug, letting him know that's all there was to it.

Claire Contreras

#72. The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Bill Gates

#73. It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Angela Thirkell

#74. I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

Rudy Giuliani

#75. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

#76. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

Dean Martin

#77. Not like you to let someone get that close," Nicholas said, nodding at the cut on his forehead. "Need the surgeon?"

"And be forced to admit that one of this ship's cabin boys caught me unawares with a spoon as I went below? Wicked little bugger. I'd rather be boiled in oil.

Alexandra Bracken

#78. The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#79. I won't go with you," Allan told me.
I scowled. "No one asked you to come."
He looked offended in a rather dire way. "Who will entertain you?

A.C. Gaughen

#80. I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.

Niall Horan

#81. Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

Pope Benedict XVI

#82. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.

J.K. Rowling

#83. But she could not reduce her vision to words, since it was no single shape coloured upon the dark, but rather a general excitement, an atmosphere, which, when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of the northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools.

Virginia Woolf

#84. There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don't understand. And incomprehension is boredom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#85. Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Raymond Smullyan

#86. It's rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.

Ana Franco

#87. Workouts should be tailored to the participant rather than the participant tailored to the workout.

Charline Ratcliff

#88. I can't lie. This - me and you - scares the shit out of me."
I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together than
be miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.

Georgia Cates

#89. I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else

Ryan Winfield

#90. We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.

Libba Bray

#91. You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

James Carville

#92. The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives. And myth is meaning divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit.

George Sheehan

#93. There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

Gary Ross

#94. I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

Anthony Daniels

#95. It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

Viktor E. Frankl

#96. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau

#97. I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory

Gerard Way

#98. Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ...

Francoise Sagan

#99. Rather than being lovers in order to breathe, we are queer in order to escape asphyxia.

Guy Hocquenghem

#100. In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Barbara Corcoran