Top 100 Would Rather Quotes
#1. I would rather be blunt and heard then quiet and misunderstood.
Michael Joshua
#2. I would rather let affairs break their neck than twist my faith for the sake of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.
Peter Sunde
#4. I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher if summer was longer. You have your two or three weeks to take off. You have plenty of time to go back and see family and friends. I don't want summer to be any longer.
Henrik Zetterberg
#5. I would date a model, but I would rather marry a fan or a normal person.
Zayn Malik
#6. As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
John Milton
#7. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
Roxane Gay
#8. Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar - saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
"Butterflies don't last," said Philomena solemnly.
Anya Allyn
#9. 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
#10. The Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free. In the Dream they are Buck Rogers, Prince Aragorn, an entire race of Skywalkers. To awaken them is to reveal that they are an empire of humans and,
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#11. Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.
Swami Kriyananda
#12. I personally would rather do the Master Cleanse for ten days than just eat salad for six months.
Gigi Hadid
#13. Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.
Sally Hogshead
#14. Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek ... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.
Jacqueline Emerson
#15. I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.
Danny Trejo
#17. Some men would rather break their donkeys back, than give them the carrot they both require to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#18. If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.
David Dixon Porter
#19. I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
Les Brown
#20. Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves ...
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
Dave Barry
#22. I would rather die then try to live without you", "May you always love me and want me but never have me", "May you never love anyone but me".
Jude Deveraux
#23. Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
Epictetus
#24. Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#25. All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.
Charles Dickens
#26. I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#27. No man is so faint-hearted that he would rather hang in suspense for ever than drop once for all.
Seneca.
#28. I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
Ken Gire
#29. Admittedly, a book about pro-life apologetics may not appeal to some lay Christians. It seems many believers would rather focus on end times rather than these times. That's a mistake. Humans who ignore questions about truth and human value may soon learn what it really means to be left behind.
Scott Klusendorf
#30. 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
#31. I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
Henry Rollins
#32. 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
#34. I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest.
I would rather die than see them hurt you.
And I have a sudden fear that somehow, some way, what he said in the dream will come true.
Marie Lu
#35. I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Norm Sloan
#36. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. 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
#38. I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Wilkie
#39. Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
Urania Sarri
#40. I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night.
Chord Overstreet
#41. I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.
Twyla Tharp
#42. I would rather die a spinster - poor, ruined, scorned, and alone - than suffer that heartbreak daily.
Tessa Dare
#43. I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#44. Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.
Frederick Leboyer
#45. In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
E.B. White
#46. I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
John Green
#47. I'm not interested in placing my signature on a house but would rather it be a signature of the place it's located.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
#48. She would rather not breathe if she couldn't paint.
Gina Conkle
#49. People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
Fannie Flagg
#50. For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I'm not.
Tanya Kaley
#51. I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
Karl G. Maeser
#53. A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.
R.P. Falconer
#54. Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?
Anastasia Lily
#55. Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle.
#56. I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
Patrick McGoohan
#57. I would rather have an elephant with a flatulence problem sit on my face.
Samantha Young
#58. They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore ... I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
Frida Kahlo
#59. I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.
Michel De Montaigne
#61. English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.
Trinny Woodall
#62. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice
#63. I would rather live with the consequences of my failures than live in regret without ever trying.
Bryan Nyaude
#64. Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.
Amanda Crew
#65. If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church
J. Oswald Sanders
#66. For its own well-being, the intellect should be doing what you condemn; that is, it should avoid busying itself with particular knowledge, for it cannot reach God through this knowledge, which would rather hinder it in its advance toward him.
San Juan De La Cruz
#67. Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
Alain De Botton
#68. 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think and 95% of the people would rather DIE than think
Bob Proctor
#69. Hester, recently married herself, and knowing the depth and the sweep of love, ached for Callandra that she sacrificed so much. And yet loving her husband as she did, for all his faults and vulnerabilities, Hester, too, would rather have been alone than accept anyone else.
Anne Perry
#70. 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
#71. In the end I would rather wonder than know
Mary Ruefle
#72. Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
Kajol
#73. We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone
#74. 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
#75. I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Max Brooks
#76. I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
Anynomous
#77. The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.
Ridley Scott
#78. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday
#79. It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.
E. M. Forster
#81. Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.
Epictetus
#82. Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party.
Tom Robbins
#84. How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Margaret Mitchell
#85. People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum
#86. A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
Gelett Burgess
#87. If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.
Sam Storms
#88. 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
#89. I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid
Ivana Trump
#90. 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
#91. You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
Sally Hawkins
#92. 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
#94. I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
Sherry Turkle
#96. he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.
Lorrie Moore
#97. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
Robert Hughes
#98. You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
Michelle Hodkin
#99. 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
#100. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.
Richard Rohr
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